Here's what appears to be a useful way to get some idea of how headphones can compare one to another.
http://www.headphone.com/learning-center/build-a-graph.php?graphID%5B0%5D=573&graphID%5B1%5D=2881&graphID%5B2%5D=373&graphID%5B3%5D=963&graphType=0&buttonSelection=Compare+Headphones It looks like the testing system is consistent. I don't know enough to interpret the results so as to predict which will sound good enough to use as a reference. Comfort and durability are not on the chart! Douglas Murray On Jul 23, 2012, at 10:31 PM, "Ronald C.F. Antony" <[email protected]> wrote: >> From what I understand headphones are supposed to not have a linear >> response, because they are designed to compensate for proximity effects etc. > > Not sure how much of that compensation is to make regular for-speakers-stereo > sound passable with headphones, and how much would also have to be done for > proper playback of true binaural productions; but a flat frequency response > would make for pretty lousy headphones from what I understand. > > Never bothered, though with measurements, simply bought what worked for me: > HD580/600/650 > > I figured the hearing adapts quickly for a specific frequency response as > long as it remains invariant. After all different mixes and masterings are > also EQed, and it generally doesn't interfere with music perception all that > much; more like different cooks spice the same dish differently, but it's > still recognizable as the same dish... > > Sent from my mobile phone > > On 24 Jul 2012, at 00:14, Sampo Syreeni <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As noted above, this is far off-topic, but I'm also guessing quite a number >> of people bump up into this question: are my headphones even semi-passable. >> >> I don't want to pretend they were bought for serious binaural work or >> anything like that. They were bought for enjoying the nastiest kind of >> techno, and then some jazz, and then the other stuff. >> >> But still, these were the best ones I could find at a short notice from a >> Finnish brick-and-mortar store, which at least pretend to be neutral despite >> their obviously skewed frequency response, despite the lack of any phase >> response measurements, and their audiophile-like design which to me is >> something of a red flag. >> >> So, do Grado SR225i's work at least a little bit, and are they compensable >> even if their response is "a bit" off here and there (a closer to 4dB boost >> in the high bass and lower mids isn't just a bit, and the highest end >> response just goes off the charts, possibly because of my insistence on an >> open design; but then the frequency response over the lower frequencies >> suggests that they are closer to a minimum phase system as a whole, with a >> tighter temporal response at LF, and more room for correction than with >> nulls or even narrow resonances within the band of interest). >> >> So, do these kinds of middle range phones work even a bit? My hearing says >> they might, but then I'm a bit on the deficit side, and that bass boost >> could fool anybody to think "cooler sounding" is the same as "better, more >> transparent". >> -- >> Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - [email protected], http://decoy.iki.fi/front >> +358-50-5756111, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2 >> _______________________________________________ >> Sursound mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: smime.p7s > Type: application/pkcs7-signature > Size: 5863 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: > <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20120724/bbb58f73/attachment.bin> > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
