All these adjectives for the sound are marketing nonsense. If the sound isn't accurate, the sound is worthless. Accuracy is all that matters in music or vocal reproduction. Give me an accurate reproduction of the original sound or poo on your product.
MadDadNo. Deviations from flat and accurate are sometimes desirable. But they are also measurable. Accurate specifications will tell us if the sound these provide will suit our tastes.
JDoegeI don't think there's a headphone in the world that measures completely flat and accurate. There's not even a specific standard as to what is neutral. Harman keeps moving that line. Must be sad to live in a world where everything is worthless.
BiffsBizYup. But I once installed car stereos and many of the people who had me do so preferred greatly enhanced bass and treble. "Sizzle and boom", we called it. Not my preference, but everyone has their tastes.
BiffsBizBut if everything sounded perfectly accurate, wouldn't everything sound pretty much the same? I like having headphones that sound different where I can pick the one that suits my mood. If I turn in my Audiophile Badge, do I get a refund on membership dues?
BiffsBizIt's probably also worth mentioning that since most people are listening to music encoded in MP3, "accurate" is pretty much out the window, anyway.
MadDadI reccommend that you select the music that suits your mood, not the distortion.
Also, if you think everything would sound the same if everything was accurately reproduced, then you definitely need to get your audiophile badge removed. Nope, there are no refunds.
BiffsBizWow. All this time I thought transducers inherently had different frequency responses based on design, materials, and enclosures. It was just distortion all the time.
I'm glad I have someone that can tell me which headphones sounds best to me. Can you tell me what food tastes best to me too? Oh, probably the one that sticks most closely to the recipe. Or which paintings are the most beautiful? Ah, the ones that look most like real life, I'm guessing.
I've got a plan to get my audiophile badge back. I'm going to make every recording artist get an audiogram. I'm going to compare it to my personal audiogram, because my hearing is different than theirs, and create a compensation curve for each artist. Then, I'm going find out what equipment the studio used to playback the recording during the mixing and mastering phases. I'm going to buy a warehouse to store all that equipment in, because I'll have to recreate every single recording studio and the different iterations of their equipment throughout their history. After that's done, I'm going to create a compensation curve between my headphones and studio monitors they used to listening to the original recording. Voila! I'll finally be able to hear the music as it was intended. Completely faithful to the original recording and the artist's intent. I'll probably get super fit too as I run between setup to setup to get decent sound out of my playlist.