WickedInsignia
Active Member
Here at ASR we're pretty EQ-crazy. That's perfectly valid, since EQ is just another link on the chain to make music sound more natural and enjoyable.
So what is the best "EQ-ready" headphone?
If we consider some notes Oratory1990 has made on this topic (excerpt from this comment), we gain an idea of what makes a headphone a great platform for EQ:
Consider price/performance ratio!
So what is the best "EQ-ready" headphone?
If we consider some notes Oratory1990 has made on this topic (excerpt from this comment), we gain an idea of what makes a headphone a great platform for EQ:
- Perform reliably, with repeatable seal across multiple users.
- Easily obtain the amount of seal that it was designed for (rip glasses users or people with large beards).
- Have good quality control = little unit variation and no channel imbalance.
- Have a relatively smooth FR free from high-q artifacts (sharp peaks and dips).
- Deform the pinna as little as possible.
- Have little reflections inside the earcup, especially those that lead to destructive interference. You can't fix a notch in the FR with EQ (non-flat excess group delay).
- Have suitably low distortion.
Consider price/performance ratio!