Crossfeed Filter - Jan Meier vs. Chu Moy?

[Mediahound]

I’m looking for opinions - which crossfeed filter is better? Jan Meier vs. Chu Moy and what are the differences?

[ipeverywhere]

We had a good discussion about this some time back

Headphone users... do you use crossfeed?

I recently started listening a lot more on headphones than I used to, and have been playing with the crossfeed DSP filter. I appreciate what it does - it largely moves the soundstage out of my head a bit and more towards the front. However sometimes I find myself missing the extra detail and separation I get without the filter. I realize that not everybody likes an extra-transparent, detailed sound so it’s probably very dependent on personal taste. Curious to hear others’ thoughts…

These are software implementations of headphone amplifier circuits. If you want to truly understand what they are doing, and their differences, you need to go research the circuit that they are emulating.

As far as “what is better” it’s whatever one sounds better to you. There is no right answer as everyone hears soundstage in headphones, and even from headphone to headphone, a little differently and that’s why multiple filters exist. Just listen and decide.

[Simon_Arnold3 (Simon Arnold)]

Personally I dont get on with crossfeed, tried it in Roon and via my DAC as it has its own crossfeed filters. I find it takes the shine of things and made it all a bit dull. But as ready said it’s a highly personal thing and what works for one on a specific amp/ headphone combo might not on another or even a different combo and same person.

[Mediahound]

Thanks for the replies so far. On headphones I typically like crossfeed because:

WHY YOU PROBABLY WANT TO USE CROSSFEED FOR HEADPHONE LISTENING

[Jazzfan_NJ (Listening to JAZZ since 1972!)]

In addition to crossfeed Roon also allows one to use convolution filters for headphones. There are lots of threads and posts about convolution filters here on the Roon Community. Just do a search, download the filters and give them a try. Who knows you might even like using them.