It's really just a meme ranking. For example mid-fi or summit-fi isn't a thing. It's just brackets people set by price.

You don't need it

Whe you use headphones with a particular sound signature, your brain automatically adjusts to it, and a deviation from that will sound exaggerated. The XM4 is a really bassy headphone, it actually has more bass than even modern beats headphones.

If that's what you're used to, your brain will equalize to that so that sound signature sounds like a neutral to you.

The 560s has linear bass. Switching to that from an XM4 will make it sound like all the low end is missing, and it usually takes a few days of constant listening for your brain to readjust, then the bass will sound more full again and overall the sound signature will be fuller and you'll likely notice more details in music youre used to. After that happens, going back to the XM4 from the 560s will probably sound like the XM4 is really bloated and congested sounding, with much of the details in the mids masked

Just use whatever you enjoy most

The thing is, those are still more of a perception thing. The physical driver will follow whatever the signal is near instantaneously since it's a minimum phase system. Even between "slow" sounding and "fast" sounding headphones, the driver response is basically identical. So effects of attack, decay, speed, and clarity, are more due to frequency masking and what parts of the frequency a particular driver emphasizes more than another (not something you can just EQ in. Different drivers have unique sounds to them).

I just think the term "resolution" can be misleading to some since it may imply more of a physical difference you can read on a stat sheet, rather than something you just have to hear for yourself to understand

Watched them now. Really informative and actually enjoyable to watch. Thanks for sharing that!

It's just a play on sound waves and wave forms. Music has multiple frequencies, but they're all combined together into a single waveform that the driver follows to create a pressure wave. Then your ear hears that pressure wave and extracts the individual frequencies again

Yeah. It's just a meme based on semantics, that's all. It's producing multiple sounds, just in one waveform. Nothing to take seriously

It's just a play on how transducers make sound. The speaker itself is only moving up and down to generate a single waveform. It's just that the waveform is a combination of many frequencies which our ears and brain is able to decipher as individual sounds

Asking the real questions

Will definitely when I get off work. Thanks

Thanks. I know it's a math equation that I really don't understand. Hoping to learn as much as possible, but yeah my understanding is definitely limited

Disregard my original comment, I misread the comment above, and mine is a poor and incorrect explanation>!Yeah it all combines together through the fourier transform. The movement of the driver is a sum of its frequencies, and even if the driver seems to be moving up and down in a simple pattern, it is doing that as a result of the different frequencies all adding together. Your ear is able to take that sound and through a reverse of the same fourier transform equation, each individual frequency is separated and heard individually!<

Nah but for real, I think the term "Resolution" is misused a lot in audiophile terms since we think of Resolution as a fixed stat. Screen resolution, etc.

In terms of audio, we could call the frequency range or bit rate as "resolution" but that's not what people mean when they describe resolving headphones. They more talking about a perception or how it feels

Sennheiser build has changed a lot. Still durable, but thinner and lighter plastics. Even a new HD600 or 650 next to an older pair (or compared to a current 6xx which uses the old mold), the new one feels cheap and light. At first I even thought it was fake because of how it felt in comparison

>2. Referring to the Harman target and headphones that fit it well as "neutral" when that is clearly V-shaped. Neutral is flat, damnit.

I think when people think of Harman, they hyper focus on the bass, which is meant to be adjusted to your liking. More important to the Harman target are the mids and treble. That's why things like the HD600 are considered as following the Harman target really well, even though it has neutral bass

20hz-20khz

Yeah it's more just meant as a joke on how some react.

15+ more upper mids and treble? We're ascending to the next level of hifi untapped before

I think Soundstage is the most overvalued (me a 6X0 enjoyer)

Listen to them for a few days straight. Your brain will always "auto EQ" to whatever you listen to the most. This makes the difference in sound signature exaggerated for a couple days.

When I first switched to 600s they sounded anemic and lacking energy, but after a few days they sounded very balanced and clear, and other headphones I was used to sounded muddy and really lacking in sound quality

I do think that for your case its probably better to return the Alice. I found moondrop Bluetooth IEMs have sort of a background noise and don't sound the best on my devices. For a reliable TWS, I do prefer airpods pro or Galaxy Buds Pro.

I do like wired IEMs, but fit and convenience is really important