John In Cali
500+ Head-Fier
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I think the answer to this this is pretty obvious. The sounds we hear out of a headphone are because of movement of a driver. Bass notes and treble notes are the same to a driver, just electrons flowing through the driver creating a magnetic force that either is repelled from or brought towards another magnetic field, usually a magnet. How good a driver is at copying a sine wave is how easily it will change its direction or speed without resistance. Naturally lighter drivers are better at this(why electrostats are detailed), a driver doesn't know if it is getting a treble note or bass, it is just moving however the magnetic field wants it to.
Sorry for the crude MS Paint drawing.
A driver getting the start of the green line does not care about the rest of the line whether it follows the blue or green, it is just being pushed away from the magnet, if it can follow that path then it can follow the treble path or bass path with the same detail. Also yes the srh 940 bass detail is quite spectactular, it had me going over the same 10 seconds of a song, amazed at what seemed to be a simple lone bass note with all my other headphones, now a complex melody of a changing bass note.
Sorry for the crude MS Paint drawing.
A driver getting the start of the green line does not care about the rest of the line whether it follows the blue or green, it is just being pushed away from the magnet, if it can follow that path then it can follow the treble path or bass path with the same detail. Also yes the srh 940 bass detail is quite spectactular, it had me going over the same 10 seconds of a song, amazed at what seemed to be a simple lone bass note with all my other headphones, now a complex melody of a changing bass note.