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Bickster- t1_j21y39o wrote

The reason frequency response graphs are focused on so much is because it's the only real way to know how a headphone/IEM sounds before buying it. There are a lot of aspects that a headphone can have other than tonality, but tonality is arguably the biggest factor of determining how a headphone will sound. Before FR measurements were standard, you had basically no reference as to how the headphone would sound before you bought it, so you could only really go off reputation and recommendations.

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Bickster- t1_j21yncx wrote

I'm also baffled by the "fr only matters" stereotype. Who says this? Anyone can easily disprove this by buying a set of awful headphones and eq'ing them to a graph, only for them to sound arguably more shit. FR doesn't tell the whole story, but it's way better than nothing, and reviewers have gotten a while lot better about nitpicking technical performance, so you can go to them if you want info about a headphone's audio quality

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