Analyze the Performance of Headphones at Different Prices Through Survey and Frequency Response Experiment

Yalan Zhang; Tianhui Liu

doi:10.54097/ajst.v2i2.1156

Authors

Yalan Zhang
Tianhui Liu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/ajst.v2i2.1156

Keywords:

Headphones, Quality of sound, Frequency response experiment.

Abstract

Headphones on the market have a large price range, but is there a linear relationship between their performance and price? The article introduces an experiment to analyse the performance of headphones at different prices. Both blind listening survey and frequency response experiment were conducted to discover the relationship between headphone performance and price.

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