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Ask two Head-Fi'ers to name their favorite headphones, and you may get two very different-sounding headphone models. This is normal within our community. As we know, it's also common for a single Head-Fi'er to equally love multiple headphones with vastly different sound profiles. These examples highlight why evaluating headphones solely based on their frequency responses can be too reductive, and sometimes even misleading. Human hearing and perception are incredibly complex, and that's where HEAD acoustics excels.
As HEAD acoustics notes, audio quality extends beyond linear frequency response. Our perception of sound subconsciously considers many other dimensions. MDAQS (Multi-Dimensional Audio Quality Score) addresses these complexities, evaluating the key attributes that shape overall quality. This creates the world's first binaural perception-based measurement tool, offering a scientific and quantifiable way to assess device audio quality.
We previously interviewed Dr. Hans W. Gierlich from HEAD acoustics about MDAQS, and that discussion was at times technical and complex for a first look. So we invited Jacob Soendergaard from HEAD acoustics to visit Head-Fi HQ so that we could have a discussion more at the introductory level. Here is that discussion:
As HEAD acoustics notes, audio quality extends beyond linear frequency response. Our perception of sound subconsciously considers many other dimensions. MDAQS (Multi-Dimensional Audio Quality Score) addresses these complexities, evaluating the key attributes that shape overall quality. This creates the world's first binaural perception-based measurement tool, offering a scientific and quantifiable way to assess device audio quality.
We previously interviewed Dr. Hans W. Gierlich from HEAD acoustics about MDAQS, and that discussion was at times technical and complex for a first look. So we invited Jacob Soendergaard from HEAD acoustics to visit Head-Fi HQ so that we could have a discussion more at the introductory level. Here is that discussion: