headphone measurements

I would like to solicit where we are for the "state of the art" of transducer measurements. tl;dr: What methods could we explore for measuring the dynamic performance of transducers with actual music as opposed to steady or swept tones? Am I missing literature finding such analysis to be...

I was looking at an old "intercom" circuit in which tiny drivers are tasked with double duty to reproduce the sound as well as to function as mic when spoken into, and had a thought whether it would be possible to measure headphones as mics, i.e. play a 20-20k sweep between the headphones fixed...

Is there heated dummy head for measuring headphones with memory foam? In my experience with Bose QC3 over-ear noise cancelling headphones, the noise cancelling improves after some time has passes since I put it on - noticed by my response to family members' calling me at home -. Probably the...

I have been debating on how to weigh the data. I would like to know how the audio science community weighs these categories when determining the performance of headphones. Soundstage Frequency response consistency (changes from reseating on the system. ex: at 20hz, it is .75db higher during...

Hi everyone! I've been educating myself around headphone THD measurements, and it's been very helpful to read many interesting posts in this forum, namely to learn how several potential distortion problems are not reflected in THD graphs. However, I would still like to understand why there...

Build and Comfort: Build Is all plastic with an attached wire, feels quite cheap because it is cheap these headphones are 25 bucks after all. Comfort is ok the headband is not padded but is not an issue since the clamp of the headphones is what keeps them on your head which is also quite high...

TLDR; Comfortable, well enough built, decent isolation, easy to drive, sounds good as-is and great with EQ. Build, Accessories and Comfort Built entirely out of matte plastic and vinyl, the K371 doesn’t look or feel premium the way that my DT 1990 does. Even my HD58X feels a bit more premium...

Innerfidelity will use the Harman method of evaluating headphones. https://www.innerfidelity.com/content/where-were-going-headphone-measurements