New the the high end headphone "scene."

It's a frequency response graph. Your refence point is the response progress at 0dBr, That's supposedly the the signal's original volume as it was recorded (=neutral). You can see that the Beats have an ugly landslide of bass boost that reaches to lower mids at about 700hz, thus making them sound somewhat 'muddy' (masking of detail beacuse the bass notes are louder the midrange notes, which have the main musical content for most part). The HD448 is the on the flipside very bass anemic compared with about 20dbR deffieciency at 20hz. The HF5 are obviously better blanced than either up to the 2khz region at which they 'roll-off' noticeably (lose volumer at given frequency), as well as the HD448s. They beats will actually sound 'brighter' since they have boosted 2-3khz and 6Khz regions.

Of course these graphs don't show the whole picture since hearing is affected by eachone's personal HRTF (Your personal perception of the soundwaves coming to your ears) and specific regions' imoprotance in actual hearing compared to other.

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Originally Posted by magicalhobo 

 

I was wondering if anyone could help me make sense of this graph and explain what some of the most important things in a headphone are. Here's the graph: http://graphs.headphone.com/graphCompare.php?graphType=0&graphID[]=1273&graphID[]=1163&graphID[]=2571

 

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to be short,

the hd 448 has almost no bass, 

etymotic hf5 are neutral, but do miss in the highs part... you will get no cymbals from those headphones////

the beats by dr dre, have nothing to do with music... they do boost the bass, but,... you get nothing of the music at all.....

look, i do own the xb700 from sony, and they have better sub-bass than beats, but they keep music quality....

also, if i look better, the beats have sibiling highs..... that is important....