This debate on headphones and the Harman method is fascinating.
In another thread on headphones, HRTF was all the rage:
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...uring-hrtf-for-headphone-use.3962/#post-93816
In this thread, I asked:
«SCIENTIFIC REFERENCES?
This is the 14th comment in this thread on measuring headphones and HRTF, but I wonder:
Is it too soon to ask for some peer reviewed references, say from JAES or equivalent, on this very interesting but confusing topic?»
And another question I asked:
«If it were a mature area I would ask for the canonical texts.
Such texts would cast light on background for inquiry. Because this is an application oriented crowd I wonder how our insight into the problem can help us design and find neutral headphones, cfr.
@Floyd Toole ’s many practical insights into speakers».
So I pushed the ASR community to come up with explanation why one cannot simply find a «neutral» headphones curve, like the one
@Floyd Toole searched for about 40 years ago and which has been refined by Olive et al. recently.
The response from the community was luke warm. One example:
«You are off again. You need to stop asserting that this is an unknown unresearched unscientific area. See olive, as mentioned, or maybe this, the Audeze article etc etc
https://www.bksv.com/en/about/waves/WavesArticles/2014/inside-headphones
Or maybe some of your own searches on the subject. The same message keeps coming out.
It's actually a simple problem, but difficult to solve, until we find a cheap and consistent way of measuring individuals ears».
Source:
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...hrtf-for-headphone-use.3962/page-2#post-93920
Has this «difficult to solve» problem, which means «a consistent way of measuring individual ears» been solved now?
I can’t find anything about HRTF in those three Olive papers from 2017 and 2018 that were mentioned previously.
What good is a Harman curve if you don’t take HRTF («measuring indicidual ears») into consideration?