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Originally Posted by SebC
Don't really agree. Good headphones will let you get whatever sound you want through the equalizer; bad ones won't.
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Don't really agree either
Different speaker drivers will have different compression and distortion characteristics that you can't capture or copy through equalization, and additionally, most mobile devices these days don't have the kind of adjustable multi-band equalization controls needed to get the same response across headphone pairs.
You can't take the human ear out of the equation is all I'm saying - you can have the most acoustically perfect earphones, and they will sound like crap to some people (too harsh, too bright, too peaky, etc).. Guitar amps are a prime example of this - what I call a pristine amp, someone else calls sterile because its got a flat frequency response.
I'll concede that for most people though, most of this is a moot point. And we have to be careful, we are perilously close to tipping into audiophile land, where we'll be stuck discussing gold plated connections and oxygen free wires
