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Ear Training for Critical Listening with Pink Noise

“All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.” - Friedrich Nietzsche The raging debate over objective (everything is measurable) versus subjective (only the listening experience counts) theori...

Cool Audio Analyzer for iTouch and iPhone - Pt 1.

"You can fool all of the people some of the time." - Abraham Lincoln "It's desperately easy to fool yourself." - Me [caption id="attachment_458" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Studio Six...

Measuring Stuff with Studio Six Digital's Acoustics Analyzer for iPod Touch and iPhone - Pt 2.

I went back to my office and played my Ayre Acoustics pink noise track:  turned on the FFT; I was immediately greeted with a familiar noisy green line frequency response spectral display that was s...

Measuring Headphones with Studio Six Digital's Acoustics Analyzer for iPod Touch and iPhone - Pt 3.

I've spent quite a bit of time measuring headphones on our lab's Audio Precision tester and Head Acoustics Aachen head, and I knew it would be very difficult to replicate it's measurements. In fact...

A Review of Four ~$100 Sealed Headphones: Denon AH-D1001, Sennheiser HD 448, Shure SRH440, and Sony MDR-V6 - Part 1.

Fifteen years ago, I doubt there were more than a handful of headphones that would best the cans I review here. It really is amazing how far headphones have come in the last couple of decades. None...

A Review of Four ~$100 Sealed Headphones: Denon AH-D1001, Sennheiser HD 448, Shure SRH440, and Sony MDR-V6 - Part 2.

In part two of this review, we carry on with the Shure SRH440 and Sony MDR-V6; and summarize. The Shure SRH440 [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="360" caption="The Shure SRH440 is an exc...