ljokerl
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Not many mid-range and high-end earphones have veiled mids, to be honest. Fischer audio products can be purchased from bugdenaudio or gd-audiobase. The latter now stocks rev.2 of the Silver Bullets which is supposed to have received a much-needed cable upgrade. I haven't gotten the review up yet but the Phiaton PS 20 is another strong competitor in the ~80 range with no hint of midrange veil, assuming isolation is not a priority and the half in-ear form factor is okay. The PS20, M2/M3, and Silver Bullet all have less mid-bass than the Jamz but are more balanced and less muddy across the range which is a very fair tradeoff in my book.
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"Better" is a relative term - depends on what you're looking for. The graph simply shows you the relative output level at different frequencies. For example for the two Jamz earphones, if you take 1kHz as the base point you can deduce that at the same output @1kHz, the Jamz will have less sub-bass and more rolled-off treble than the Lil' Jamz. In terms of perceived frequency response there are many other factors (ear resonance, hearing sensitivity, loudness response, etc) so you won't necessarily hear your headphones/earphones the way they graph. Conversely you can't graph something by ear objectively, though you can probably graph two headphones relative to each other using pink noise and frequency sweeps (with some practice).
We can graph the Jamz vs the PortaPro and see that the 25-year-old Koss set is still the more balanced headphone. Things like bass control (i.e. punchy vs boomy) and impact quantity (i.e. soft vs aggressive bass) aren't really something you can read off a graph.
Not many mid-range and high-end earphones have veiled mids, to be honest. Fischer audio products can be purchased from bugdenaudio or gd-audiobase. The latter now stocks rev.2 of the Silver Bullets which is supposed to have received a much-needed cable upgrade. I haven't gotten the review up yet but the Phiaton PS 20 is another strong competitor in the ~80 range with no hint of midrange veil, assuming isolation is not a priority and the half in-ear form factor is okay. The PS20, M2/M3, and Silver Bullet all have less mid-bass than the Jamz but are more balanced and less muddy across the range which is a very fair tradeoff in my book.
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"Better" is a relative term - depends on what you're looking for. The graph simply shows you the relative output level at different frequencies. For example for the two Jamz earphones, if you take 1kHz as the base point you can deduce that at the same output @1kHz, the Jamz will have less sub-bass and more rolled-off treble than the Lil' Jamz. In terms of perceived frequency response there are many other factors (ear resonance, hearing sensitivity, loudness response, etc) so you won't necessarily hear your headphones/earphones the way they graph. Conversely you can't graph something by ear objectively, though you can probably graph two headphones relative to each other using pink noise and frequency sweeps (with some practice).
We can graph the Jamz vs the PortaPro and see that the 25-year-old Koss set is still the more balanced headphone. Things like bass control (i.e. punchy vs boomy) and impact quantity (i.e. soft vs aggressive bass) aren't really something you can read off a graph.
