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My ears tell me the iPhone is fine for what it is, and there is certainly no midrange suckout. If anything, with typical headphones, there is a midrange boost between 2.5 and 2.8 kHz.
The M-Audio and RMAA software are more than sufficient for capturing gross errors like frequency response errors. How would a frequency response error hide from measurement, especially ones that are so obvious audible? We are not talking about jitter or anything that's especially hard to measure here. And what are your EQu settings?
As for Head-Fi ... no comment on their listening judgment or abilities.
Andre,
I'm using my ears because in my experience measurements do not do an adequate job capturing sound differences. But in any event, M-Audio or RMAA are not really the last word in test equipment so my doubts remain how flat the iPhone really is.
If you go to Head-Fi, a large number of people do not find the sound quality to be very good at all. I find this opinion valid based on my own experimenting with various sources from iPods to hirez files>dacs>amps.
My ears tell me the iPhone is fine for what it is, and there is certainly no midrange suckout. If anything, with typical headphones, there is a midrange boost between 2.5 and 2.8 kHz.
The M-Audio and RMAA software are more than sufficient for capturing gross errors like frequency response errors. How would a frequency response error hide from measurement, especially ones that are so obvious audible? We are not talking about jitter or anything that's especially hard to measure here. And what are your EQu settings?
As for Head-Fi ... no comment on their listening judgment or abilities.
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