Ask two Head-Fi'ers to name their favorite headphones, and you may get two very different-sounding headphone models. This is normal within our community. As we know, it's also common for a single Head-Fi'er to equally love multiple headphones with vastly different sound profiles. These examples...

This's the original graph measured by iloud. But because I'm not in an anechoic room, and I'm not using a tester for speakers, but a tester designed for measuring headphones. The test result is: The result is better than I thought.

HBK Electroacoustics Virtual Conference Next week -- September 28-29, 2021 -- HBK (Hottinger Brüel & Kjær) will be holding their HBK Electroacoustics Virtual Conference. Last year they held their Product Physics Conference virtually, and that covered many different disciplines, but this...

Tomorrow, 15 October (Thursday), I will be presenting a talk titled Did we really need a new hearing simulation standard? Measuring headphones with the HF-HATS Type 5128 The talk is free to watch (registration link below). This year's entire virtual HBK Product Physics Conference is free...

This week, Audio Precision will be holding their Advanced Audio Measurements using the APx Audio Analyzer Platform seminar in Chicago and Detroit. The Detroit one is full, but there are still openings for tomorrow's Chicago seminar. Seminar information below: This one-day seminar will focus on...

Meze Audio Empyrean Measurements Here is the frequency response measurement of the Meze Audio Empyrean (with microfiber earpads) versus the Sennheiser HD800 and HD800S (for common references) (Fig.1): Fig.1 Meze Audio Empyrean frequency response, compared to the Sennheiser HD800 and HD800S...

John Darko (of Darko Audio) is one of my favorite audio industry writers / reviewers, and someone I run into all over the world. We ran into each other at RMAF last week, and he asked to interview me -- we talked about audio measurements, CanJam, the industry, Japan, and more.

A description of the audio measurement lab here at Head-Fi HQ has been posted in a few different places on Head-Fi's forums, but I thought I'd post it here separately as we prepare to increase our measurement activity. We will also soon be creating a separate area on Head-Fi's forums for posting...

If you can't see the embedded video above, please click here. We've been talking about headphone measurements a lot on the forums lately, so I wanted to share some of the video PowerPoint slides from a talk I gave at ALMA's annual conference a couple of weeks ago. ALMA International is the...