"Edmund" wrote in message
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I find it remarkable that even the most expensive ones have rather poor
specs. The frequency response it not flat, they have a lot of overshoot
and frequency response above 20 kHz is mostly not shown, strange!
Somehow I perceive that perhaps you are using the sort of frequency response
we obtain with amplifiers as your reference.
A more relevant standard might be that of some other electroacoustic
transducer, perhaps a loudspeaker in a real world listening room, measured
at a distance such as is typically used for listening.
Any suggestion for searching and finding for the best headphone?
Again, is this a questionable criteria? Are you really looking for the best
headphone or are you looking for a headphone that is suitable for listening
to music?
Perhaps there are a number of headphones that are suitable, but none
appreciably better than any of the others.
I am not looking for the most expensive but the best sounding AND the
best specs.
This presumes that there are reliable and representative specifications for
headphones.
The reference given by another poster, namely
http://www.stereophile.com/features/808head/index.html
is IME a good one. Among other things it explains why we don't know how to
reliably numerically specify headphone frequency response at this time.
I heard a 1000 Euro senheiser with disappointing specs, but it sounds
really
really good.
That might be a gigantic clue to the questionable status of headphone
specifications.