21 Jul
2008
21 Jul
'08
5:56 a.m.
Arnold Krille wrote:
I think truly flat responses is impossible with headphones. Just compare the
sizes of your more-or-less flat response studio speakers and the size of the
average headphone. A speaker with a diameter of only a couple of cm has its
resonance never in the range the bass-driver of your studio-speakers. So you
have to do several design-tricks to try to equalize the response. And that
with the limited amount of space. It is a wonder these headphones sound as
good as they do. (And most cheap one and even a lot of not-so-cheap ones
sound like crap...)
Actually, in purely technical terms it's easier to make good phones than
it is to make good speakers.
The problem with the phones is not technical, it's more related to
perception. The phone sound is unnatural. It has no meaningful
information regarding direction. The bass does no resonate in your
chest. Etc. etc.
Technically it's cleaner, more "flat" or whatever you wanna call it. But
a natural sound you can only get from speakers.
--
Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/