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Author Topic: How well do headphones detect planktons? (dynamic versus planar)  (Read 3448 times)

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Re: How well do headphones detect planktons? (dynamic versus planar)
« Reply #40 on: May 15, 2015, 03:11:30 PM »

Thanks for correcting and clarifying for me, Nevod.
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Re: How well do headphones detect planktons? (dynamic versus planar)
« Reply #41 on: May 18, 2015, 09:38:27 PM »

Where does separation come into all this?  Do you guys consider that a subset of detail (micro or macro) or consider it to be it's own category?
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Re: How well do headphones detect planktons? (dynamic versus planar)
« Reply #42 on: May 18, 2015, 10:53:21 PM »

Where does separation come into all this?  Do you guys consider that a subset of detail (micro or macro) or consider it to be it's own category?

I think it's certainly a facilitator. I've never heard a highly resolving phone that was blurry or smeared. So I'd definitely think it was a higly important prerequisite. Though high separation doesn't guarantee resolution, let alone 'plankton'. I can think of some DACs and IEMs that were highly separated and well imaged but were missing ambient cues and detail or had them smoothed over.
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Re: How well do headphones detect planktons? (dynamic versus planar)
« Reply #43 on: May 19, 2015, 12:14:11 AM »

Though high separation doesn't guarantee resolution, let alone 'plankton'. I can think of some DACs and IEMs that were highly separated and well imaged but were missing ambient cues and detail or had them smoothed over.

So is that the category you'd put Lambdas in?  Their separation is the reason I seem to be in love with them lately.
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