You can’t name a single headphone that has consistent reviews here. And not only that the reviews aren’t consistent, they are compeletly in contrast to each other and you can’t get any useful info on products because of that. I’ve been looking around for a headphone that i can upgrade to and after 2 weeks of watching reviews on YT and reading people’s opinions here, I am pretty much convinced that there is no point in reading nor watching the reviews here and YT.
I also do not understand the overly negative feelings people have towards different headphones. It almost feels like 75 percent of reviewers here are just fan-boys of a single brand and are trying to destroy other headphone brands.
And I’ve been into the hobby for about 4 years now and I know the terms people use and what they by them, so no I’m not confused by terminology or anything like that, I’m just frustrated by everyone here thinking they are absolutely right about everything (sometimes even about things they haven’t even tried)
I tried getting help here on how to get my cheap headphones with its drawbacks to sound as neutral as it can be made neutral and only ended up with "trust your ears, " "They’re 8€ headphones what did you expect from them? “, " EQ it until you like how it sounds and just leave it at that,” which aren’t useful at all for someone who has never used a neutral sounding headphone so I have no point of reference to work with and I’m not some audio engineer. What if the sound I like isn’t neutral/flat or whatever its called? I’m just trying to make the most out of my peasant headphones man 😅
The problem is that the drivers on cheaper headphones are less likely to be able to play frequencies other than the way they are tuned without having distortion. In other words, the driver is tuned to have the least distortion with the tuning the manufacturer has done on it. So if you change the frequency response using eq, you will be introducing lots of distortion to the driver. Whereas, with some headphones with better drivers, you can actually eq them and there would still be little to no distortion as the drivers on them are much more capable and dynamic. Basically, with the cheap ones, you will face a physical obstacle! The driver is simply not capable of moving the way you EQ it so the sound will be distorted.
I understand your frustration and I hope I have given you a more clear answer than the one you usually get from other people. Unfortunately, there are limits to EQ and you can nit achieve everything with EQ