Looks great, there goes my Sunday afternoon.
On the topic of trustworthy review sites, especially for headphones, I thought rtings.com is the standard. Detailed data-driven reviews and supposedly crowd-funded. What do people think about rtings?
On the topic of trustworthy review sites, especially for headphones, I thought rtings.com is the standard. Detailed data-driven reviews and supposedly crowd-funded. What do people think about rtings?
Noise cancelling headphones and IEMs are better than reviews make it sound due to this.
I get this with speakers but how are any of these valid with headphones?
Room acoustics, though, ought not be very important with headphones unless I'm missing something...
Having a wonky head, however, may affect the seal of the pads against your head, or the headphones may clamp too much or not enough, or the cups might be oddly angled, all of which may affect the sound somewhat.
Same with ear shape versus driver placement. If you have shallow or deep pinnae, that may make a difference depending on the relative location of the driver.
Almost all spatial audio is built around a head related transfer function, which attempts to model all sorts of things, like how much sound reflects off your shoulders and other such things, although those questions are usually considerations more for DSP than they are for the tuning of the headphones themselves -- in cases like the Airpods Pro & Max, though, those two things may be one and the same.