Preamp gain vs headroom management

Roon Software Discussion
#1

I have Oratorys eq preset for my Sennheiser HD660S. It has a negative preamp gain of -8,4
Do I also need to enable the headroom management or is it enough with the gain?

#2

If you have the .wav filters downloaded and using them in Roons convolution you should be ok but enable headroom management set it to 0 and turn on clipping indicator to keep an eye on it , but if entering in PEQ manually you need to add the headroom. If you get clipping add a little until it stops.

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#3

I have manually entered it so I’ll just enable the headroom. Thanks a lot!

#4

Set it to what they say the pregain they say and keep an eye on it as it could still clip.

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#5

All the same, but just for completeness I’ll add another method of avoiding clipping:
In your PEQ graph, you’ve got a slider to the very right which you can pull down to effect the resulting curve to not reach into the positive gain realm.

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