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hi and welcome today wanted to make a short video about a quite interesting in the sonne caste rock + MK tone this is a korean india not that easy to find but i've seen that some marketplace d-does on amazon offer it for around $50 this is where I also bought it and what is interesting is that according to some measurements like here from clarity fidelity it should be close to flat when compensated for the Hammond target so the sound should be really neutral as if you are listening to some speaker in an optimized Hammond listening room yeah to tell the truth and all that impressed for me it sounds a little bit off but it can be tuned and brought with some equalizer to a really high level and I would like to demonstrate you this I will put it inside here so you can have a listen by yourself I will play analog from so personam princess freedom first the original track then without equalizing and then I will adjust equalize a little bit to make it sound more normal so let's have a listen I think you would hear without equalizing it's simply way too hot in the upper mid area so everything about free keloids up to 7 8 kilohertz is simply way to boost it therefore I'm not quite sure how it can measure that flat maybe the Hammond target is simply off well maybe my unit and not sure but what did I do I took a peaking filter on with a gain of minus 7 DB at center frequency 5 kilohertz and the Q factor of 0.7 so I reduced everything around 5 kilohertz maybe let's check out some frequency response measurements this should explain a little bit more in gray you can see it uncompensated and in black compensated for the diffused field target there is some peak at around 3 kilohertz maybe to read it a little bit better I will also overlay the sony image 1 here and you can see it has small base but it's also flattened in the 3 4 5 up to let's say 8 9 kilo Hertz region and we're looking at the raw response of the Sun you can see that it doesn't have this 3 kilohertz elevated as much so with some equalizing the response of the Dirac plus can be brought to a similar level as the sony in this upper mid-range here still not equal but it's not as hot not as harsh anymore so maybe let's compare the Dirac plus against the sony image 1 with some Faro tracks this one is of course way more bass boosted so here the Dirac Plus is really quite flat just some elevated bass in the lower region around 40 30 Hertz so let's compare these two and at the end I will give you my resume is it just a dream my name inside my fantasies come to me you are in my thoughts I never stray from the heart of you come to me we can't be underwater am i searching you I wanna feel so if not this elevated upper mid-range the Dirac Plus would be a really great neutral sounding in here also quite comfortable one but with its stock tuning without additional equalizing it's simply way too hot it's too direct I tried different tips there sony image one tips improve the sound improve try a little bit but still there is this five six seven kilohertz boost it's not a peak it's simply the whole area is simply too elevated the sony on the other hand is lipid slow with base basis to Bhumi travel is also too picky but it's still a nice smooth sounding one so I'm a bit disappointed because I thought when looking at the measurements here from clarity fidelity also some other ones measured it which close to flat but maybe the Hammond target is simply off it doesn't sound comparable to any other in you know the etymologies finalist is hot in this area so it sounds a little bit off to me not like a speaker in a room rather yeah apart from that for $50 definitely worth a try a simple equalizer reduce 5 kilohertz by 7 DB with a Q factor of 0.7 and it should be fine you could maybe find you need a little bit better basis nice needs a nice but the range between meets and treble is simply to elevate it so yeah it's a nice in here but not what I expected I expected really a smoother sound more compared to is only maybe with less bass or so smooth smooth whatever but it's it's - for me it's too harsh too direct sounding somehow so I hope this was helpful to give you an idea about the sonic as Dirac Derek plus mk2 cross there's also an older version which is I think has more bass this one sounds quite flat with bass so for bass heads is probably not the right one yeah thanks all for watching until the next video bye bye