Edition XV

Open backs are basically always going to roll off, modern planars just sometimes postpone it a bit longer, and more importantly slope downwards a bit more gently. They're generally just slightly easier to EQ to conformity with harman-style targets down to ~20hz. For example you could compare the ext

The fingernail test makes no sense, pressing against it with your finger isn't a coherent test either. You conflated a few ideas or at least failed to disambiguate them and you picked the most unrealistic idea+test out of them to primarily explain the issue with Hifiman headphones. I can't just deny