Audio Technica ATH-W3000ANV Frequency ResponseThe Audio Technica woodies are very hard to measure because of their design. The driver baffle is semi-open to allow a delayed back wave to augment the forward wave. This probably accounts for their romantic or weird sound depending upon how you hear it. As always, no smoothing is applied. What I will do is investigate further by taking an open or small baffle measurement of just the driver itself.UPDATE - FR measurement of the [colour=#ff0000]driver [/colour]without the cup:I guess the driver is just screwy. CSDs will tell more, but none of those until tonight at earliest.
What c+nums said. damped solid plate coupler with pinna and hair simulators.No compensation. No use of HRTF or DF, etc. The measurement is intended to be the perceptual equivalent of a measurement taken by a microphone pointed at speakers in a living room with typical stuff (bookcases, etc.) where the mic is at the listening position. Not measuring at eardrums, effect of head, pinna, sonic singularities, etc.
Quote from: Analixus on May 30, 2013, 06:51:42 PMWith natural wood that has different grains from different trees that expands and ages differently? Wood working tools are also hardly the same precision as metal tools. You really think the underpaid sweat shop worker in China grinding out Denon cups really cares about their accuracy or the quality of the interior finishing? Beyer barely gives Tesla drivers a sniff test before boxing up and shipping.The Audio-Technica Co. (or at least its headphones division) is a patriotic enterprise, it does not rob its employees of jobs and then gives them to the Chinese communists . All of the headphones 'woodwork' is done in Japan. If all the U.S. companies were the same.
With natural wood that has different grains from different trees that expands and ages differently? Wood working tools are also hardly the same precision as metal tools. You really think the underpaid sweat shop worker in China grinding out Denon cups really cares about their accuracy or the quality of the interior finishing? Beyer barely gives Tesla drivers a sniff test before boxing up and shipping.
Quote from: sszorin on July 11, 2013, 12:47:22 AMQuote from: Analixus on May 30, 2013, 06:51:42 PMWith natural wood that has different grains from different trees that expands and ages differently? Wood working tools are also hardly the same precision as metal tools. You really think the underpaid sweat shop worker in China grinding out Denon cups really cares about their accuracy or the quality of the interior finishing? Beyer barely gives Tesla drivers a sniff test before boxing up and shipping.The Audio-Technica Co. (or at least its headphones division) is a patriotic enterprise, it does not rob its employees of jobs and then gives them to the Chinese communists . All of the headphones 'woodwork' is done in Japan. If all the U.S. companies were the same.Is that right? According to this 2012 presentation, apparently they have 3 production facilities in China (slide 6):http://www2.kent.edu/business/StudentOrgs/bapaa/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&pageid=3022060You're saying they "patriotically" sold them or something? Maybe barely using them?
Their top end high value products are made in Japan.
