I kind of guessed that after posting,  but the marketing l read appeared
just to push only the flat response. Which i suppose to most people sounds
like a great idea on its own. The thing is, without a personalised HRTF,
they are likely to sound worse to most people.  Well at least the frequency
response won't sound flat.
I personally use headphones that sound flat to me,  or where I know where
the deficiencies are.
Another method is to A/B with a known speaker set up,  and eq the
headphones until they match. Unfortunately this is trial and error. So I do
see the value of these, if one has HRTF set that matches, or has been
learnt.

Best

Steve
On 7 Apr 2016 10:53 pm, "Politis Archontis" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> I guess the idea is that if you equalize the response of the
> headphones/earphones, then you can apply the target response you need
> without undesired modifications by the headphones, and that can be
> individualized HRTFs if you have them, which include the effects you
> mentioned.
>
> Regards,
> Archontis
>
> > On 08 Apr 2016, at 00:32, Steven Boardman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Not sure one needs actual flat response at the ear drum.
> > Surely it needs to sound like the torso,  head,  pinna and ear canal have
> > filtered the sound before we think its flat?
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Steve
>
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