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That sounds about right. I checked with ChatGPT and it considers the shouty range to be between 1-5Khz or 2-5Khz depending on how the question is phrased. Audio university considers the vowels A as in face, and EE an in bee :Based on your clarification, I would sort of agree, semantics aside. Rather than trying to use adjectives which are commonly used to describe the nature of sound colorations, I often find myself describing the sound imparted by describing a quality one can imitate with one's voice. In the case of a peak somewhere around 2 or 3kHz, I would suggest it sounds like the sound of the letter "a" as in the way we North Americans pronounce the word "ant." Human voices will take on a nasal "EHNNN" sound emphasis within the sound of similar vowels being spoken by the reproduced voice when there's a peak there. And that's what I hear too much of in IEMs which closely adhere to the Harman in-ear target curve or which may have an even stronger peak there. Everybody sounds nasal.
Still I can't be sure it's my place to declare a specific range so I have to accept some ambiguity to avoid editorializing / inserting my own bias to the discussion. The same goes for discussing other ranges such as bass, this has previously been accepted as subject to individual preference to large degree, with an existing poll on ASR showing comparable numbers to Harmans own. I'm sticking to the the midrange here because this is what has been discussed the most as of late giving incentive for the poll. Threads with a more open discussion about Harman targets exist already.
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