Engadget, Im surprised of you. For such a prestige electronics blog, you of all people should know about how higher frequencies (even inaudible ones) effect the fundemental tone, giving higher quality.
I'm not challenging your statement, but just questioning here for my own edification:
Is there any source you could listen to through headphones that produces sound in the 80kHz range? Even CD's are recorded with a 44kHz sampling rate IIRC...so they can only possibly capture sound up to about 22kHz. Not sure what you'd plug your headphones into that would provide more sound than that?
On the other hand...if it's just the driver that has such a high frequency response, then I could see it more accurately producing the 20kHz sound (you know, with .00001%THD instead of .0001%).
This "fundamental frequency improvement" is relevant only if the higher frequencies are present in the source material. You'd be hard pressed to find source material reaching 80 kHz. Theoretically, it may sound better, but in practice I bet you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between 80 kHz and 24 kHz headphones.
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Engadget, Im surprised of you. For such a prestige electronics blog, you of all people should know about how higher frequencies (even inaudible ones) effect the fundemental tone, giving higher quality.
thank you! i was gonna post similarly, but not as nice as you.
I'm not challenging your statement, but just questioning here for my own edification:
Is there any source you could listen to through headphones that produces sound in the 80kHz range? Even CD's are recorded with a 44kHz sampling rate IIRC...so they can only possibly capture sound up to about 22kHz. Not sure what you'd plug your headphones into that would provide more sound than that?
On the other hand...if it's just the driver that has such a high frequency response, then I could see it more accurately producing the 20kHz sound (you know, with .00001%THD instead of .0001%).
This "fundamental frequency improvement" is relevant only if the higher frequencies are present in the source material. You'd be hard pressed to find source material reaching 80 kHz. Theoretically, it may sound better, but in practice I bet you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between 80 kHz and 24 kHz headphones.