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and it sounds good to my year (way better than beats solo hd2 sounds)

That's not really saying much, to be totally honest.

That's not to say that they're bad, though.

Really, there's nothing that can definitively test how good it sounds other than how accurately it can reproduce a sound to a computer, and that takes lots of very sophisticated equipment to do and doesn't tell you anything that you will be able to gauge by looking at the numbers.

How headphones sound is all based on the person in question. If your brain hasn't listened to better headphones, it just doesn't have anything better to go on. the placebo effect will make you think that they sound good until you hear something that to you sounds definitively better than them.

Really the only way to test how good a pair of headphones sounds is to test it with another pair of better quality. I would recommend going to somewhere like a store that allows people to test headphones out, and see how it plays out from there. Apart from that, there's no amount of science or software that can tell you how good a pair of cans sounds. Everyone's ears are different, and everyone's preferences in EQ are different too.

 

Objectivity is a very difficult thing in audio equipment.

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If it is, then they can cut the human part altogether and replace it with machines, which got lots more measuring accuracy and computing power.

 

I can't wait.

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I can't wait.

 

 

Then we'll have toasters asking us if they can buy amps for more bass.

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Then we'll have toasters asking us if they can buy amps for more bass.

 

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Then we'll have toasters asking us if they can buy amps for more bass.

That day I give up.

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