[mobbaddict]

I was browsing information about non-imported Japanese headphones when i found out this huge comparative review of dozens of headphones, including AKG K701, ATH W5000, Denon D5000, Senn HD650, Sony SA5000, Sony CD900ST, Stax SR404, Ultrasone Ed 9, Ultrasone Pro 2500, Victor DX1000

It's called Moero (or Moeru) Headphone Guidebook and it's made by Takashi Iwai.

2007 edition:
http://vnsharing.net/forum/showthread.php?t=88010
http://www.pireze.org/blog/?p=811

2008 edition (only the pictures, no reviews):
http://www.pireze.org/blog/?p=3108

 

[mobbaddict]

A guy on a Japanese forum helped me to translate the graph!

 

[Drosera]

Very nice, thanks for this! Another reason to start working on my Japanese.

 

[sugrhigh]

This would be a cool community project!
Maybe not a published book, but a non-biased, purely "scientific" and number based compendium of headphone knowledge!
We'd need someone with one of those fake heads for testing the headphones though....
I could do the layout and such but that's about all I could contribute

 

[mobbaddict]

There is already a comparative review of IEMs (see here) but that's right i'm not aware of a similar review for fullsize headphones.
This one is from a specialized magazine though.