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Frequency Responses Compared: Moondrop Starfield/KPE/Crescent, Tanchjim Cora, and Dunu DM-380

Frequency response Moondrop Starfield Kanas Pro edition KPE Crescent
Harman-Target-tuned Moondrop models.
frequency responses Dunu DM-380, Tanchjim Cora, Moondrop Crescent Starfield KPE
Frequency responses Tanchjim Cora and Kanas Pro Edition KPE
Similar tuning: Tanchjim Cora and Moondrop KPE.
frequency responses Dunu DM-380, Tanchjim Cora, Moondrop Crescent Starfield KPE
Frequency responses Tanchjim Cora Moondrop Starfield.
Fun tuning: Tanchjim Cora with more bass than the Moondrop Starfield.
frequency responses Dunu DM-380, Tanchjim Cora, Moondrop Crescent Starfield KPE
Frequency responses Tanchjim Cora Moondrop Crescent
Tanchjim Cora and the flatter Moondrop Crescent. Crescent has the much bigger soundstage.
frequency responses Dunu DM-380, Tanchjim Cora, Moondrop Crescent Starfield KPE
Frequency responses Tanchjim Cora Dunu DM-380
Tanchjim Cora and the very V-shaped Dunu DM-380 with the sawtooth in the upper midrange. The Cora has a much denser vocals reproduction. That deep trough in the DM-380 results in an unacceptably strong recession with very thin vocals.

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  • Jürgen Kraus

    Head-Fier since 2016. He has been known as “Otto Motor” to Head-Fiers, as “Dr. Schweinsgruber” to audiobudget.com users and Youtubers, and as “Brause” to Super Best Audio Friends and the Headphone Community. - For the purpose of confusion, he decided to pose under his real name Jürgen Kraus (“JK”) from now on. - This is a hobby. In “real” life, Jürgen is a professional geologist operating his own petroleum-exploration consulting company Franconia Geoscience Ltd. based in Calgary, Canada. He holds German and Canadian passports. Jürgen had a classical music education from childhood through high school in Germany and he has been following popular music developments since the late 1970s. His understanding of arts and crafts was influenced by Bauhaus pragmatism: “less is more” and “form follows function”.

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Jürgen Kraus (Calgary, Canada)

Head-Fier since 2016. He has been known as “Otto Motor” to Head-Fiers, as “Dr. Schweinsgruber” to audiobudget.com users and Youtubers, and as “Brause” to Super Best Audio Friends and the Headphone Community. - For the purpose of confusion, he decided to pose under his real name Jürgen Kraus (“JK”) from now on. - This is a hobby. In “real” life, Jürgen is a professional geologist operating his own petroleum-exploration consulting company Franconia Geoscience Ltd. based in Calgary, Canada. He holds German and Canadian passports. Jürgen had a classical music education from childhood through high school in Germany and he has been following popular music developments since the late 1970s. His understanding of arts and crafts was influenced by Bauhaus pragmatism: “less is more” and “form follows function”.

3 thoughts on “Frequency Responses Compared: Moondrop Starfield/KPE/Crescent, Tanchjim Cora, and Dunu DM-380

  • No offense, but how did You manage to screw up the treble with Your measurement rig? A lot of people use imm6 and their treble is just fine. But Yours is a downhill, only useful to check the bass in this way

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    • That is correct and we had this discussion before. The coupler screws the lower treble. I got the coupler from co-blogger Biodegraded, who uses exactly the same coupler and also produces identical graphs. You will have to translate my measurements to others. I have been too lazy to set up E.A.R.S.

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    • KopiOkaya

      No offense here either, but I have also seen a lot of folks using tube couplers that aren’t fine. So it is just a matter of calibration and compensation.

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