i remember reading about brain adjusting to frequency response errors. in particular, if you hear a system with 1/3 octave notch, you will not hear the notch, but when the notch is switched out and the system is flat, you will hear a peak where the notch used to be. umashankar
i have published my poems. read (or buy) at http://stores.lulu.com/umashankar > CC: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 01:31:35 -0400 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Sursound] [ot] [rfc] about headphones > > >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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20120724/20b7a84d/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
