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submitted 11 months ago by GullibleFish_@alien.top to c/headphones@hi-fi.community

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Considering human hearing can only hear up to 20kHz why do some headphones like the HD 560s allow going to 38kHz?

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[–] mochatsubo@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you want a transducer to go out to 20kHz in a well behaved way then it needs to have the headroom beyond 20kHz to do this effectively.

[–] GullibleFish_@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago

Thanks!