Yeah, here you go:
Keep in mind this personalized for myself, you may prefer less sub bass for example.
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Well, thank you. To be honest, I use a RME ADI-2 Dac which provides only 5 PEQ filters plus 2 shelf filters, one for bass, one for treble. Do you think your fine eq setting can be reduced or maybe simplified a bit? Any ideas? Thanks a lot again. 
Yup, you could remove the 100hz and 162hz filters for example. The main thing is adjusting the ear gain peak for the filters around 3.7khz
I got my Hadenys some days ago.
Fresh out of the box it sounded, well, strange. Muffled and bassy, and with an extreme volume mismatch between left and right channel, left was very much louder than right.
Focal recommends to burn in the headphone 24h at high volume. After doing this, the Hadenys sounds now more balanced, and after loading the eq setting from @Resolve the sound improves even more.
However, there is still a tiny channel mismatch, left is still a bit louder than right. So, I will return the Hadenys the next days.
Did anyone has the same issues like me with the Hadenys? Extreme channel mismatch left to right fresh out of the box? Or with any other headphone?
Sounds like there may be a seal issue between the pad and the baffle. Check to ensure the clips are all fully clipped in.
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Ok, could be a reason. But I don’t have the Hadenys any longer, I returned it to the dealer. However, fresh out of the box the channel distribution le/ri was maybe 90/10. After burn in period more than 24 hours it was maybe 60/40. Strange to me in any case…
Anyone try the Hadenys and the Clear Mg and is there a big diff if they are both EQed?
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Hey @listener , any chance you could add the 5128 measurements to your Squiglink?
Cheers, Sam
Yep, I had the same problem. I kept them 3 weeks before I returned them just in case they fix themselves after the burning, but nothing (60hrs aprox). The left channel sounded bigger and deeper than the right. After that, I researched on the web and Focal has that problem with most of his models (Azurys, Haydenys, Elex, Elegia, Celestee, Utopía, etc.). I’ll never buy a Focal again. That’s a shame, I really liked the metallic timbre of the driver.
Interesting…and good (or bad, it depends) to hear that someone else had the same issues with the Hadenys.
After my test and return last summer I never had the chance to get my hands again on the Hadenys or Azurys. They were always out of stock. So I gave up and lost my interest for them.
Some years ago I was able to see and hear the Clear MG Pro. To be honest the look, feel, comfort and tuning, all those criterias were not convincing to me.
I’m a little surprised there isn’t more enthusiasm and chatter over the Hadenys. (I would have returned them too in a flash if I heard a channel imbalance, especially with a single-ended cable that doesn’t allow for side-switching. But in my pair, the balance is fine.) Maybe it’s priced a little high? But this is a really great headphone, well-tuned, nice sense of spatial effects, light and portable.
It might be just that so many of us already have a Clear or Elex. At least that’s why I am not particularly interested.
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It’s a a price point where those that are more budget conscious are likely going the HD 6XX route and not premium enough for those looking to spend a bit more. Couple that with the fact that it doesn’t share the same design language as Focal’s more premium offerings and I can see why it hasn’t hit with the market the same way even if it is a more comfortable, lightweight option.
Pricing psychology results in a lot of good products just disappearing from discussions.
In the North American market, you can also get the Elex for $499 or the Clear OG for $790 so that would be another factor.
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Here in Germany we do not have access to HD6XX or Elex. I guess this is also true for the whole EU. And you additionally cannot buy a Clear OG for a long time.
Last year when Hadenys and Azurys came out they were quite often out of stock at different dealers.
So the EU market might be better for Focal with these new models. But I understood why this might not be true for the US.
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As you say, there’s competition in the market, so Focal isn’t the only brand to choose when buying mid-to-high-end headphones.
But the brand distinguishes itself by equipping Mg/Al transducers to produce a smooth, delicious and metallic sound. But I got involved with some people who already had Focals.
It seems the brand has quality control issues with most of its models. Not even the Utopia models are safe from being returned.
The truth is that Focal is just a boutique brand with a good Harman sound profile. I bought a Sennheiser HD490 Pro instead of order Haydenys again for my collection. I probably get the Meze 109 Pro next.
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