[Arny Krueger]

"William Sommerwerck" wrote in message
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If what you say were absolutely true (rather than generally true), then
there would be little agreement on headphone quality (with respect to
FR). But there is very strong agreement.

The agreement is to be expected.
It's the usual question about what is the weakest link, and what
determines what the listener hears.
Some headphones are so bad that nobody's pinnae can help them.
Others are really good.

Other headphones manage the pinnae problem better than others.

Take a headphone with a good flat, smooth driver, position and surround
that
driver in such a way that it interfaces well with most people's pinnae,
and
reliably create a sound that meets or exceeds market expectations. Lots
of
people are going to line up, money in hand.

Then, by that reasoning, the better the headphones, the _greater_ the
disagreement among listeners as to what they sound like.

Only true if you ignore the following:

"Take a headphone with a good flat, smooth driver, position and surround
that
driver in such a way that it interfaces well with most people's pinnae, and
reliably create a sound that meets or exceeds market expectations."

Merely using a good driver is not sufficient to have a headphone that is
widely agreed upon to be good sounding.

The driver must be positioned and surrounded with ear cups in such a way
that it interfaces well with most people's pinnae.