Great article, and prefer the new rtings curve than harman Do you plan to add an “auto EQ” system in the futur graph tool? like we can find on hangout audio. Cos you get very good measurement technic and explain, and can be cool to get EQ for correct headphone. Thank
Hi MasteringHeadfone, I am not certain if you keep monitoring this suggestion but I just happened to read your post. We went ahead in providing EQs. Here, you can read about the project.
Currently the Target Compliance scores (Treble, Mid, Bass) are based on the RTings target profile. Is there any way to produce, show, or incorporate scores based on the other curves available at RTings (such as the Sound Guys one)? I’d love the ability to view a table of headphones and earphones and sort them according to adherence to the other target profile
Hi Sumi Agarwal, it’s a great suggestion. It would require some very significant changes in the Back end of the Web site but It’s something we’d really like to be able to do in the future. We never know, what is not possible today may become feasible in the future. Thanks.
Currently the Target Compliance scores (Treble, Mid, Bass) are based on the RTings target profile. Is there any way to produce, show, or incorporate scores based on the other curves available at RTings (such as the Sound Guys one)? I’d love the ability to view a table of headphones and earphones and sort them according to adherence to the other target profile
Great article, and prefer the new rtings curve than harman Do you plan to add an “auto EQ” system in the futur graph tool? like we can find on hangout audio. Cos you get very good measurement technic and explain, and can be cool to get EQ for correct headphone. Thank
Thank you for the kind words. We really like the new Hangout Audio Squiglink Interface too. We may consider adding EQ parameters down the line as we plan to keep improving our Graph Tool. We’ll look at what is realistically feasible as we progress.
Great article, and prefer the new rtings curve than harman Do you plan to add an “auto EQ” system in the futur graph tool? like we can find on hangout audio. Cos you get very good measurement technic and explain, and can be cool to get EQ for correct headphone. Thank
One comment I have with your test bench is that the voice isolation/noise performance results aren’t valid anymore because many truly wireless buds have a voice pickup unit that uses bone conduction to help drive a AI algorithm to filter background noise. For example if you look on YouTube for the spectacular performance of the Air Pods 2 Pro with voice isolation or the Galaxy Buds 3 in very loud environments they are completely silent with only your voice being heard. But on rtings tests that isn’t reflected because you’re only getting acoustic conduction via your speaker to the earphones mic. It needs testing on a real person who’s mouth moves. Otherwise the test is invalid. Off the top of my head the ones that do this are: Air Pods Pro 4, Air Pods Pro 2 these two only with iOS. Galaxy Buds 3 and Sony LinkBuds Donughts
Thanks for the comment. You bring valid points. We do measurements on humans for On-ear/Over-ear but in terms of IEMs it would be impossible to do so, a measurement microphone would need to be in the ear canal, between the eardrum and the IEM tip. This would invariably break the seal. Some past research have been able to do such measurements but it involve modifying the earbud considerably, it is used in development but it’s not the same earbud anymore. We will see in the future if there are ways to simulate this with a mannequin head but at the moment it’s a limitation of the test. The amount of Noise reduction is still valid, we just can’t test the voice isolation.
One comment I have with your test bench is that the voice isolation/noise performance results aren’t valid anymore because many truly wireless buds have a voice pickup unit that uses bone conduction to help drive a AI algorithm to filter background noise. For example if you look on YouTube for the spectacular performance of the Air Pods 2 Pro with voice isolation or the Galaxy Buds 3 in very loud environments they are completely silent with only your voice being heard. But on rtings tests that isn’t reflected because you’re only getting acoustic conduction via your speaker to the earphones mic.
It needs testing on a real person who’s mouth moves. Otherwise the test is invalid. Off the top of my head the ones that do this are: Air Pods Pro 4, Air Pods Pro 2 these two only with iOS. Galaxy Buds 3 and Sony LinkBuds Donughts
Does this update mean that your testers will be switching to AP across the board?Including the group delay and phase
Hi Tim, thanks for the question. Yes we are, as we progress into measuring headphones frequency response for our Test Bench 1.8, we are also gathering results for group delay, phase, and more. In our next test bench they will be published since our process involve more than just measuring as you may see in our reviews. Stay tune they are coming.