![]() The worst bit? Paying more doesn’t necessarily yield a higher quality product that will perform better at the task at hand. ![]() Then there are closed-back, open-back, and semi-open-back designs and different driver sizes and technologies: dynamic, planar magnetic, and electrostatic. In most cases, low impedance headphones are easier to drive than higher impedance ones, but there are plenty of 250 ohm headphones that can easily be driven from a smartphone. Impedance doesn’t show you the full picture without taking sensitivity into account. Impedance should give you an impression as to if mobile devices such as laptops and tablets will be able to drive a particular pair of headphones, or if you’ll need a headphone amp. Harmonic distortion? Most spec sheets will state something along the lines of “< 0.1% THD at 1kHz,” which means nothing, as no modern pro headphones will exhibit significant distortion at 1 kHz-it’s the sub-bass range that’s problematic in some models. All modern studio headphones cover the range of human hearing and beyond. Frequency response range? Doesn’t tell you anything. The truth is very little of the information found in headphone technical specifications reliably translates to their real-world performance. ![]() You compare the spec sheets of a few popular models and you’re not sure what each of the specifications means and if they even matter. So you need to buy headphones for audio work. ![]()
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