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Maybe I missed some context here but what's EMS?

Again, I've no idea where this 18khz thing is coming from. I specifically said 12-13khz is where the upper frequency boost kicks in on this headphone, at least for me.

So yes, there are several things going on here. In the technical respect, 'speed' refers to how fast the driver can move, which is measured by frequency response, particularly with how high in frequency it can go. The faster it moves the more high frequency extension. But that's not how...

These properties are actually measured by FR, that's literally what FR measures. And before you say CSD or IR... time domain information is just a worse view of FR, since headphones are minimum phase. Unless you can show excess group delay, fixing a peak in FR will necessarily delete whatever...

Bold of you to assume I'm capable of feeling things... But since you asked, it makes me feel... Beguiled. Or maybe it's the music doing that, I don't know.

It's a good question tbh. Rig ears by their very nature aren't going to be the best proxy for individual human ears, given how much they can vary from person to person. And this becomes particularly relevant above 3khz or so where the pinna effect variation becomes more substantial. I have...

But this is precisely the problem. I may have attached meaning in that way, but it's going to lead to a lot of false positives and false negatives when inevitably other people don't attach meaning in that same way. I can't expect people to be able to peer into my brain. Not only that, I do not...

Yes, and yes we do experience many of these things differently. And not only that, the way we attach meaning, where our attention goes, it's all specific to the individual. I won't go into it here as much to not derail the thread, but we have gone into it at length over on our forum.

Ahh but see this is only the traditional view of FR. You're judging it based on a graph, not how sound is propagating at your eardrum. "Measures well" is based on one head and one set of ears, it gives you the picture of that FR, and ideally relative to the HRTF of the measurement system. It...

I'm not sure where folks are getting the 17-18khz peak ideas from. For me it's a fairly wideband elevation above around 13khz (and this is quite audible. For reference, my hearing goes up to around 18khz still). As to the rest of it... we don't focus primarily on measurements, we focus primarily...

And that's fine, you should use music. We all use music and evaluate subjectively. I guess I'm just tired of the ASR-washing we constantly see, when really it's the rest of us doing the measurements who are providing the groundwork as to why that way of evaluating things is a bad idea.

And this is exactly the straw man I see so regularly from the anti-measurement crowd, and it's quite tiresome. It's as if you treat us all like we're Harman target dogmatists. The rest of us are not doing that. We're not saying "it must meet this curve or it's bad". We're not saying tasteful...

I see this sometimes and I just have to note that this isn't remotely related to what's actually been said by the vast majority of us who do use measurements. Only one measurement based review site actually evaluates products like this, and we've planted our flag firmly against that kind of...

This is why I don't recommend people become headphone reviewers haha. Purchase validation is a hell of a drug. It's probably healthier to just ignore and move on, but also why I just say... look at the data. It might not tell you what's best, but it sure tells you what's bad. Anyway, up next for...

Only the Solitaire T of those in the discussion, not the Bose, Dali or H100.