[Wapencio]

Hey guys, just like the title says, do any of you know what tools are used to measure the headphones frequency response, and how expensive are them (probably a lot)?

 

[fjrabon]

  Hey guys, just like the title says, do any of you know what tools are used to measure the headphones frequency response, and how expensive are them (probably a lot)?

depends on how accurate you want them to be.  There are iPhone apps that will do it.  Then there are model heads, with quad microphone setups implanted and specialized software (can run in the thousands).

 

[Wapencio]

What tool would be precise enough but not that expensive? Thanks for responding

 

[ProtegeManiac]

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What tool would be precise enough but not that expensive? Thanks for responding

 

Everything that isn't expensive will not be able to simulate the actual conditions of a headphone playing music as a listener hears them. For example if you're measuring speaker in-room response, you just need to mount the right kind of mic where the listener's head is. With headphones, just sticking a mic between them is very different to having a model head that simulates at the very least the clamp and seal around the earpads, and even then unless the tester molds it from his own head, it will be difficult to tell if the clamp force is the same on his head and on the mannequin head.

 

IEMs are easier to measure though, there's that mic with a sealing attachment - if anything its flaw is that the seal is perfect, something you won't get close enough to for a lot of people on universal fit IEMs.

 

[silvrr]

For a cheap option check the first post of this thread.  Basically a microphone you calibrate and stick in your ear.  
http://www.head-fi.org/t/618659/fostex-t50rp-incremental-mods-and-measurements

 

[Wapencio]

Thanks for the answers guys. The link to the DIY mic was especially helpfpul. Thanks a lot!

 

[oliverpool]

is there a cheap ready made solution for measuring headphones frequency response for eq purposes?

 

[Wapencio]

Check silvrr's links, there is a DIY microphome that is really cheap to do, and seems somewhat accurate, according to the pictures of comparisoms with an actual professional dummy.