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Headphone Essentials for headphone enthusiasts
The one-stop source of information I was looking for first when I started researching a headphone purchase, then later when I started doing EQ. In this series I undertake the radical experiment of actually explaining the fundamental concepts it depends on before introducing a more advanced concept! (Extensively updated, beginning summer 2021.)
- Introducing the Headphone Essentials series
- HE1: Basics of musical sound
- HE2: Basics of headphone sound
- HE3: Basics of headphone types and tech
- HE4: The skinny on headphone frequency response graphs
- HE5: The quest for a reference headphone
- HE6: Interpreting headphone frequency response graphs
- HE7: A parametric EQ primer
- HE8: Trying to make do with 10-band EQ
- HE9: Headphone power requirements
Headphone resources:
- 50 neutral and extra-bass over-ear headphones
- Using Oratory Grapher Headphone
- Sennheiser HD 579 Owner’s Report
- Audio-Technica ATH-M50x Owner’s Report
- Sennheiser HD 600 Owner’s Report
- beyerdynamic DT 1990 PRO Owner’s Report
- Hifiman Sundara Owner’s Report
Dated material:
- A 31-band EQ primer for Mac and Windows
- Some practical 31-band EQ applications
- 31-band headphone EQ values in PDF format and CSV format
- The whole flat/neutral/Harman thing (previous HE5)
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