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Why does headphones measurement graphs always gets squiggly-er in the treble?

MrBlitzpunk

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I'm sorry if this is not the right place to ask this question as I'm quite new to this forum.
But i wanted to delve a little bit deeper in the more scientific/physical side of the audio world.

As the title said, why does headphones measurements always gets janky in the upper treble? I also noticed that IEM measurements is a lot smoother in the treble region. Is this a quirk specific to the transducers/build of headphones or is it the limitation of the measurements rig itself?

A second, somewhat unrelated question; less about audio and more about how soundwave works in general. So how does sound wave interacts with space? I noticed that when i play my speakers inside a closed room, i can still hear most of the upper frequency but the bass is significantly reduced. Meanwhile when there's a concert somewhere near my area, i can mostly hear the bass from far away, but not the treble. What is the physical explanation of this?
 
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