Thank you! I’ll look them up for available specs.

My thought process is that if you have a headphone with sloppy frequency response, then you are not getting a true idea of what the person can hear. It would be like using a bad microphone to test a “perfect” speaker. The microphone will make it seem like the speaker response is poor. Bad earphones in a hearing test would be the obverse.

I hope I’m saying that in a way that makes sense.

Audio devices that sound different are either wrong or right. They are either adhering to straight wire with gain, or deviating.

Find a setup that give you straight wire with gain, and anything that sounds different is “wrong”.

“Who, ME?!”

If rioters are endangering the lives of others, put them down with whatever you have at hand. Use a freakin cannon for all I care.

Had a friend in the guards during the Newark riots. He had some stories to tell.

Would Peace EQ with its list of presets help you in any way? It also has a nice “compress” button that reduces the equalization if you find a preset too extreme.

Then how does the bloody signal get picked up by my neckbuds’ mic, processed through the ADC, processed by the DSP, processed through the DAC, sent through the amp, and into the drivers without said latency issues?

Yes. Cool. Audio phase cancellation. Known about since the 30’s. How do my neckbuds deal with the latency issue that my phone would be unable to handle?

Is it the real-time software processing versus hardware-based that is the problem? I use an old PC that can de-click and de-hiss records in real time with zero delay between the processed and unprocessed sound.

Nerd fact: simply mixing to mono can get rid of a lot of surface noise on an LP through phase cancellation. I used that method in the 90s before DCART existed. My software now does it through DSP, though.

I really DO know what ANC is, and how it works. The most simple example being connecting two speakers out of phase; a more complex example being physical lens stabilization on military binoculars, or mechanical sound damping in a handgun suppressor, or hydraulic vibration dampeners on a crankshaft.

So, let’s talk latency: How do ANC ‘phones overcome latency whilst a cellphone would not be able to do so? The ‘phones are tasked with playing an out-of-phase version of ambient noise that is picked up by microphones. What processing power do they possess that a phone could not offer?

Inventory day sucked.

Lighter fluid is actually very gentle. Retail trick for cleaning up display items, esp electronics (ex Radio sHack employee).

Freeze them for 6 days. Better.