Any earbud graph that measures like that is measured under conditions that do not make sense for measuring earbuds unfortunately. All it tells me Is that they either don’t know what they are doing or they are trying to fool potential customers. Hard to say if they are charlatans or idiots, but either way I have no interest in their products. Sometimes no information is better. With that said, you can see where the problem areas are in this bud using those type of graph. No bud will have flat bass to 20Hz in your ear however. if a bud was measured correctly and the graph looked like that, it would be a total disaster. This is why FiiO has regained my respect but posting graphs that will translate well into what you hear. They had lost my respect after discontinuing the e12 and then A5 (I’m absolutely kidding about losing respect for FiiO ever. I know they have a business to run.). I believe Moondrop was posting appropriately done measurements of their better buds for a while. Not sure if they still do. If I didn’t learn my job, how could I expect to be paid to do it? Don’t give these people money. It only encourages them to remain uneducated and employed in an industry they have no “business“ participating in. This is my hobby and I have a whole library on transducer design and psychoacoustics written by PhDs. Anyone making money in this industry should at least know the basics. Either these guys don’t, or they think that horrible looking graph will get you to give them money.
I think you're just being a tiny bit too harsh. That graph is taken from the product's page. It's marketing. Plain and simple.
Same as the ubiquitous 20Hz...20Khz, which can be considered a half-truth at most. Especially for buds.
Nobody trusts marketing any longer. This is one of the major reasons why we're here. If producers would be 100% honest with their products, we'd have almost nothing to talk about. It's also the power of this forum: we have each other to shield ourselves from lies. This is our defense. I know I'd be lost otherwise.
And for headphones, it's pretty straightforward. We've been lied to for so long that we've built natural defenses and just ignore the lies.
But we're not always fortunate enough to detect the marketing.
I was eating a pizza with a beef topping, a few years back. And, while happily chewing, I realized that the tiny "beef" cubes were
actually made of soy. I looked at the menu. The menu boldly stated "beef topping" (priced accordingly).
Looked again at the topping... soy taste and texture. I got caught off guard because I didn't expect such blatant lie.
And it happened from a large pizza chain, not the pizzeria at the corner of the street.
Be aware of marketing you don't expect. That's the most dangerous.
I've read something that still gives me the chills. Please look over the CT section of this
article :
It seems that companies producing CT machines keep their radiation dose low by the power of .... marketing.
There are a lot of pamphlets about how safe x-ray and CT machines are. That's just marketing.
Saddest thing is that nobody questions those measurements. Radiation is painless. Nobody even thinks those CT machines could be dangerous for your health and you can go back from a full body CT scan with brand-new cancer cells.
I guide myself by the following rule: If there's a product spec that can't be (easily) measured, then it's probably fake.
On the other hand, some producers can't afford to be honest while all the other ones are lying. Not all the buyers are knowledgeable like the users on this forum. and for them specs matter.
Just look at the contrast ratios for normal TVs. Any real figure would be so low in comparison, normal buyers won't even consider such a TV.
Just like the TV wall at brick and mortar stores. Any TV that doesn't look their brightest on the wall will not be a success no matter how good it is otherwise.
Even if the universe around us is not as bright as a supernovae(ok, ok, some exceptions are true: actual supernovae).
Think of it the other way: You're fortunate enough to afford the luxury of being honest. That's an amazing feat.
But I do see your point. Marketing is bothering me too... Quite a lot. I've developed a sensitivity to screens(computer and otherwise)
due to probably just sitting for too long in front of them.
I'd love for screen producers to just show accurate(ish) measurements of how much eye-strain their products create. But that's probably never going to happen.
They're not even giving us any kind of information of the brand/type of the ever-brighter white LEDs they use.
Bottom line: Our existing process is amazing: Somebody sees a new pair of headphones that looks interesting to the eye. Someone else orders them. Then posts a couple of impressions, determining others to try them. This is how we discovered great pairs of buds. This is how we poured our money into deserving headphones. Any pair that was overpriced and/or subpar was quickly dismissed.
to death.... 