final - VR3000 for Gaming

I feel like the VR3000 don’t get any credit in these threads. I honestly couldn’t find an iem that had better soundstage while keeping the curve flat for hearing the games the way devs intend.

If purely gaming, I've seen VR2000 & VR3000s by Final Audio in a similar price bracket to the Zero Blue 2s. They'll blow anything under the $100 price bracket when it comes to imaging and soundstage, and I routinely used my VR3000s with Apex Legends when I used to play semi-seriously a year ago.

Vr3000 wired IEM are by far the best headset I've had for around in regards to pin pointing direction. Better than my arctic's, clouds, Sennheiser that I've owned

Here you go, I'll go through your whole comment: >The story goes that someone put speakers in a room, went "Hehe I tuned these perfectly", recorded them through a fake head with silicon ears and said "This is exactly what the human ear hears. No... Speakers are (ideally) tuned to a flat frequency response in an anechoic chamber. I shouldn't have to explain why that's the ideal tuning. Also no one has ever said that in reference to a HATS. >And it was thus that all headphones were "tuned" to a "frequency response" to "account for the human ear" Headphones are (generally) tuned to a population average diffuse field. This is also what the most up to date HATS is made to reflect. The reason why is that the vast majority of people won't have ears that far off from the average, and thus a population average target will work for the most people. >Instead of just EQ'ing the sound output to correct for this when needed with regular point microphone recordings, and shifting towards fake head (HATS simulator) recordings. I'm not even really sure what you mean with this. Also the S in HATS stands for simulator. >As such, all audio science is null and void. Also probably doesnt help that these are multi drivers and have crossover frequency ranges that dont show on the graphs (They look smooth but.. lol. these lines are smoothed. Idk why tf they do that) and driver mismatching. Hows your ear supposed to know where sht is when bass and mids and highs dont match up at the very least? All audio science is not null and void. You can actually turn off smoothing on [squig.link](http://squig.link) (which is what I'm assuming you're referring to). Crossover between drivers is actually quite easy to compensate for. There's online calculators for it, even. Smoothing is on by default to iron out the tiny resonances and frequency changes that aren't audible. Driver mismatch doesn't really matter, because the sound that drivers produce is the same. The only difference between drivers (other than the frequency response, which is compensated for obviously) is the method they use to produce sound. IEMs and headphones with a completely flat frequency response would sound pretty awful, because they don't account for things like pinna gain. Having a neutral frequency response only works when you aren't bypassing parts of the ear. >Anyways, I'd grab a set of Moondrop Aria 2 and call it a day tbh. Any headphone, because it will have a different FR and driver coating and etc (gives a different image), will require your ear to learn its specific audio cues. Aria 2s are alright, if you like V shaped tuning. This might be the only correct thing you've said so far. >VR3000 suuuk. Just another tuning but I have no idea what data they're going off of lol VR3000 do seem like they would suck, they are very treble heavy. They probably aren't going off of data, but just tuned them incompetently.

Definitely VR3000 is miles ahead for gaming, but it is little more pricey than VR500. If budget permits, VR3000 is the one you should pick.

I took a toe dip in to IEMs with Final Audio VR3000 specifically for single player games and they sound amazing. The soundstage is incredible and surprised me how good they sound.

Check out Final Audio stuff A Series or VR Series they are pretty sick for fps gaming where you can pin out exact location of foot steps

There are some Final Audio ones (VR 2000 to VR 5000). Ive always found it best to opt for single DD iems for gaming, especially fps games. But that's in my limited experience and limited to these titles.