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shiny_potato OP t1_je9ao5o wrote

Reply to comment by SupOrSalad in Why don’t we see more dynamic tests for audio gear? by shiny_potato

Would a planar driver and a dynamic driver headphone with an identical frequency response have an pretty much identical listening experience? I keep hearing things like “dynamic drivers have more bass slam but planar drivers have more bass precision”. Is that kind of thing represented in the frequency response?

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shiny_potato OP t1_jea5jem wrote

I’m getting the sense that the meat of most headphone reviews are really just ELI5 of translating a frequency response curve into a prediction of what an individual user will perceive as the listening experience. Such reviews are important because the average person looking at a FR graph will have no idea if they would enjoy the Arya’s FR vs. the LCD-X’s FR more.

Is that a reasonable takeaway from this thread?

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