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When buying a pair of earphones, frequency response seems to be the one thing most of us look at when standing along the isles at our nearest IT shop, scratching our heads over all those numbers under the technical specifications. Since most of us are not audiophiles that understand the techie details, let’s begin looking at what you need to know.
The human ear can only pick up sounds between 20-20,000Hz theoretically so anything that falls lower than the infrasonic range of below 20hz is basically not picked up by the human hear (meaning if you have a infrasonic range of 14hz in a pair of $700 headphones, your pet puppy will be able to fully appreciate the audio clarity more than you do). This is the same for the ultrasonic range of above 20,000Hz. For most earphone manufacturers, 18-22,000Hz or 20-20,000Hz is the technical range that most stereo drivers can handle. So even for the Razer Moray, 18-22,000Hz is being delivered by the earphones.
The audio driver in the Moray achieves a frequency response of 18-22,000Hz as well technically but during the testing process for the Moray, we’ve taken the addition step of optimizing audio for our gamers. The range that most sounds commonly fall within is between 500-11,000Hz. Within the class of audio drivers the Moray is in, we wanted to improve the experience of the average gamer so during development of the Moray, audio quality was optimized for 20-11000, where most music and gaming audio falls within. This means that you’ll hear good quality audio MOST of the time, rather than hear average audio quality ALL the time.
The average person that buys earphones is, unfortunately, usually not informed of this. So all they look at is freq response because hey, the bigger the number, the better right? So before you take a leap of faith and plonk down your hard earned money on an expensive pair of earphones, give the Razer Moray a test drive. You might be pleasantly surprised by the audio quality of this more affordable product.
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