MrCrassic
New Head-Fier
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I second this.
With equalization, it's much simpler to make a passable set of headphones sound good enough to make them usable somewhat. The problem, as this poster said above, is that their power output is lower, which makes distortion and clipping much easier to occur and more difficult to amplify its range.
Originally Posted by claus /img/forum/go_quote.gif One of the problems created by non-ideal headphones is distortion, which actually adds frequencies to the signal that have not been there before. I am not aware of a possibility to alter the input signal in a way that these additional frequencies are cancelled out. There are certain changes to a signal that are unfortunately not reversable. Furthermore even an accurate model of a headphone with regard only to frequency and phase response under all input conditions would be extremely complex and probably hard to calculate in realtime. Keep in mind that for a simple stereo signal you already have ~100000 values per second to calculate, so even on modern PCs you cannot do arbitrary complex mathematics. But you are right, for simple changes to the frequency/phase response this is already done, e.g. in some active studio monitors. But I suppose this would be something to make bad headphones acceptable, not to make good headphones great. |
I second this.
With equalization, it's much simpler to make a passable set of headphones sound good enough to make them usable somewhat. The problem, as this poster said above, is that their power output is lower, which makes distortion and clipping much easier to occur and more difficult to amplify its range.