Why not use audacity and run an eq filter on something.  You'll still have a
curve but if you use the same source you can hear how the two headphones
compare. Or you can also generate sine waveforms of the desired frequency. I
would you the beta version of audacity, more filters and plugins.

Matthias
On Aug 31, 2011 2:52 PM, "Joseph Apuzzo" <[email protected]> wrote:
> As part of some research I'm doing with a collage buddie of mine I just
> bought two JVC headphones
> Now a normal human can hear 20Hz to 20Khz but both headphones have a wider
> frequency range:
>
> JVC HA-RX500 $20
> Frequency Response 10Hz-22KHz
>
> JVC HA-RX700 $35
> Frequency Response 8Hz-25KHz
>
> Both have sensitivity of 105dB/1mW
>
> So for my test I need to know what the source file contains. That is does
> the file contain frequencies that go below 20Hz and/or above 20Khz
> Thus I need a program that can tell me information about mp3,m4p and FLAC
> audio files so I can compare and contrast the two headphones.
> But trying to make it a fare test and drive them with source material that
> would create these edge cases to see if there is any noticeable
differences.
>
> So does anyone know of a program that can display this information? I
don't
> want a real time GUI, I would prefer analysis resulting in a text report,
> but a graph image is ok.
>
> This is not going to result in scientific results, just want to see if
> investing more then $20 when your source is a mp3 and the computer chip
that
> came with the computer.
> I'll blog the results and not waist list messages on updates, but need the
> tools to do the work.
>
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