Explain to me please

[Boby]

I do not understand much of audio, but can somebody please explain why a two headphones with exactly the same spec sound soo differently when you try them? And how can i choose quality audio if the specs dosn't mean so much, is the only option is to "hear" them ?

[Dujith]

14 minutes ago, Boby said:

I do not understand much of audio, but can somebody please explain why a two headphones with exactly the same spec sound soo differently when you try them? And how can i choose quality audio if the specs dosn't mean so much, is the only option is to "hear" them ?

Yes, a thousandfold yes.

Always listen to headphones before you buy them, besides the spec there are many variables on how a headphone will sound. How is the shape? what materials are used? ect ect.

With audio just always listen to it to decide what is best for your ears.

[Dackzy]

A 50mm driver isn't just a 50mm driver. The magnets can be different sizes, the coil can be very different, the same for the quality of the membrane and the design of the membrane.

 

What you read on the specs is the frenquncy range the driver can reproduce something in, the impedance which doesn't really matter, driver size and maybe a sensitivty which is a really big aspect of how much power a headphone needs.

 

None of those things actuality tell you how a headphone is going to sound and the company that produce a given headphone has a idea of how a headphone is going to sound,  so they tune the driver and the shell until they have the sound they want and Ofc they are going to use worse drivers with their cheap headphones and spend way less time on engineering them, than they are with the expensive models. 

 

You can also just look up pictures of headphone drivers and you will see that how they look varies quite a bit. 

 

When you are new to this then yes testing them is really the only way of knowing how something sounds and you can't use reviews for much other than getting a general idea of how something sounds, since we all hear things differently and if you learn how to read a frequency response graph then you can get a general idea of how something would sound from that and how high quality something is, like if you see a lot of dips and spikes thought-out the graph then it is probably not a very high quality headphone, but this again won't get you the full picture, only testing can give you the full picture.