Àedhàn Cassiel
100+ Head-Fier
Then what do you think the chances are someone is going to eventually kill off the whole industry by developing a flat, low-distortion driver coupled with a DSP hardware full of presets that mimic the house sounds of all the diffetent popular brands with the flick of a switch?
Even if soundstage is something additional to FR and distortion, it seems it wouldn't be hard to account for this with pad swapping and an adjustment system similar to the Abyss, or Mysphere's to go along with the DSP pre-sets.
Oratory1990 has already done something similar to this, creating presets for nearly every popular headphone to tune them to the Harman curve. All you'd need to do is get the right driver with the ideal flat signature, then do those same measurements towards a variety of "house sound" goals instead of just Harman.
If you did this, you could even release "new headphones" for free, or in an app you pay a small monthly subscription to or something like that.
It seems we already have all the know-how we would need to pull this off - and I don't doubt there would be overwhelming interest in the project. If you priced it within reach of an average young audiophile, you could take the entire market just like that.
Even if soundstage is something additional to FR and distortion, it seems it wouldn't be hard to account for this with pad swapping and an adjustment system similar to the Abyss, or Mysphere's to go along with the DSP pre-sets.
Oratory1990 has already done something similar to this, creating presets for nearly every popular headphone to tune them to the Harman curve. All you'd need to do is get the right driver with the ideal flat signature, then do those same measurements towards a variety of "house sound" goals instead of just Harman.
If you did this, you could even release "new headphones" for free, or in an app you pay a small monthly subscription to or something like that.
It seems we already have all the know-how we would need to pull this off - and I don't doubt there would be overwhelming interest in the project. If you priced it within reach of an average young audiophile, you could take the entire market just like that.