Fluffy
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That's not my point… ok, try for a second to define "soundstage". Can you come up with a simple measurement that tells you what headphone has more soundstage? How can you even technically define soundstage? Well you can't, really. It's a subjective term that stems from psychoacoustic perceptions and is created inside the brain. And still, RTINGS has a table of headphones rated by soundstage, and they can explain to you in a very scientific-sounding way how did they come up with that measurement. But they are not really measuring soundstage. They are measuring a conformance to some kind of target response that according to their conjecture, is correlated with soundstage. It's not really scientific or accurate, it's just some method to allocate ratings so they can rate stuff.Dude you are messing with the building blocks of this Forum too then! We strive for accuracy here. To us, stuff which deviates from it are poorly engineered. So there must be one anchor on target sound we should be focussing on for measurments and reviews. Nothing wrong against it.
And as Jimbob54 said, a target curve is also not a universally defined engineering goal. Target curves are also basically a conjecture as to what most people will probably prefer. Some target curves rely on very strong scientific foundations, but they are not absolute and preferences shifts over time. It's not like saying "we need as little distortion as possible".