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".
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