Softears: what they publish

In this database4 headphones
Figures from their own material4 of 4
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This page does not review anything Softears makes. It counts one thing: how much of what this database says about their products came out of their own documents, and how much had to be worked out or left blank.

Where each sensitivity figure came from

ModelImpedanceSensitivitySource of the figure
RSV8 Ω104.0 dB/mWConverted from per volt
Studio412 Ω103.8 dB/mWConverted from per volt
Twilight16 Ω105.0 dB/mWConverted from per volt
Volume5 Ω100.7 dB/mWConverted from per volt

Impedance is almost always printed. Sensitivity is the one that goes wrong, because a decibel figure means two very different things depending on whether it is per milliwatt or per volt — about five decibels apart at 300 Ω and eighteen at 16 Ω. The conversion is here.

  • Converted from per volt — 4: the maker prints a figure per volt, converted here with dB/mW = dB/V − 10·log10(1000/Z)

What the paperwork adds up to

Almost everything this site says about Softears came from them. That is not the normal case and it is worth saying out loud.

The rule used here is the same for every maker and is described on the manufacturer index. Every figure behind it can be opened on the product page it came from, with the document it came from linked.