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bubblejohns t1_itr2ol1 wrote

Technicalities is basically everything that isn’t FR so yeah it exists. You don’t need to put alot of stock into them. It’s little things you pick up along the way. Or larger things Like note weight and imaging and stage. So it’s not A thing. It’s thingS. An iem doesn’t live or die on them

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ThelceWarrior t1_ittz61r wrote

This is technically an incorrect statement since technicalities is FR since again on minimum phase devices it is the most important thing by far before we go into other aspects like distortion which even then don't seem to matter as much as is often assumed on audiophile circles.

Good example would be the Moondrop Chu which is often considered technically mediocre due to "low bass impact" (Which I guess is true since they are a bit light on the bass but eh) so people speculated it was due to high distortion in the drivers yet distortion on them is fairly excellent in practice even compared to much more expensive sets.

Now though whatever or not we can correctly define what (to an extent subjective too) aspects of the FR (And that's talking about FR at your own eardrums and not FR graphs too) constitute "technicalities" is another matter entirely and that's without mentioning subjective bias you add into the discussion that doesn't have anything to do with the inherent properties of the transducer like price for example.

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bubblejohns t1_itu3a6m wrote

Yeah but people like to seperate it. Makes things easier to talk about and review the more we brake things apart. Even if they’re related

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