Everybody has their own approach: some have proprietary algorithms, some say that they consider the headphone model you use, some ask you to identify the dip and troughs during a sine sweep, some have their software built into the headphones, some into the bluetooth chip, etc. But I learned from the other tools and so I appreciate the developers’ efforts. I tried everything I could get my hands on and, to me, there is no comparison: the Peace test calibration tool easily wins. There are also quite a few other software tools which appear to do something similar. Thank you to Frans (Solderdude) for providing this graph. If you just want to understand the descriptors you may find in write ups about headphones, and speakers, then try this: For the curious, here are a few, not only for the frequency response:īut they are not easy to use, they require work. And if you don't want to go through a proper school, then at least some tests will help. You can go through that too if you care for it. The professionals in the field are trained. But if you want to get as close as possible to the musical intention, then you have to know what you’re doing. That is OK if you want to play with it, as you’d play with a toy. The vast majority of them recommend that you play with the sliders until it sounds good to you. I won’t explain here what an equalizer (EQ) is, I assume you know, perhaps you even played with some. The result can only be not good enough, there is no other way. How you hear is a combination of your hearing capabilities and the way the headphones have been tuned. But unlike with sight where it is very easy to know that you don’t see well, there is no easy way to know that your hearing may need some correction. The measurements are highly flawed and so they do not matter! They also vary in time, for instance with the aging of the earpads, and so on. The cost of the various things which go into the final product, the time taken, the competition, they all count for a lot and so there is no magic - if you ever believed in that. For the most part the engineers are not that free during the process and the development funds are limited. Why do you think Grado sounds so different from, say, Sennheiser HD series? It is just tuning. There is no agreed standard for tuning headphones and their tuning varies greatly. The two reasons for needing the calibration toolĪny headphones you may own, regardless of the price, have been tuned in some way and that was a subjective choice of the manufacturer. Now you can do something similar about hearing too. I found this comparison to be really useful when thinking about this toolĭo you use viewing eyeglasses? Even if you don’t, they are so ubiquitous that if your vision wouldn’t be very good you wouldn’t think twice before getting some. Yes, I was part of the development and no, I’m not making any money when you donate to Peter.
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