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Twenty Thousand Hertz
Headphone Handbook
Nov 15, 2023
Learn how to navigate the world of headphones with this episode. Discover the process of testing and choosing headphones, explore concepts like impedance and shielding, and hear about the potential future advancements in headphone technology. Plus, find out how you can win a t-shirt in a mystery sound contest!
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- In selecting headphones, it is essential to consider factors such as sound authenticity, bass performance, and sound characteristics in various scenarios, including noise cancellation and resistance to water and sweat.
- When choosing headphones, it is crucial to take into account one's lifestyle and specific activities, such as exercising or working in noisy environments, and to disregard marketing gimmicks like gold-plated cables.
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How to Test and Evaluate Headphones
Lauren Dragon from Wirecutter explains her extensive process of testing headphones. She begins by charging them up and doing her own listening sessions with a secret playlist. She listens to different genres and pays attention to the authenticity of acoustic tracks, the nimbleness of headphones in sonically dense and delicate tracks, the performance of bass notes, and the fidelity of high-end sounds. Lauren also tests for realistic depth in recordings and uses a slow frequency sweep and binaural recordings to examine sound characteristics and spatial reproduction. She further assesses performance in various scenarios, such as noise cancellation, voice quality, resistance to water and sweat, and even durability. Only headphones that pass all these tests are considered for her headphone recommendations.
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