I had a bit of a "wait… have I been doing this wrong the whole time?" moment. In this parody video I talk about how I’ve been measuring headphones on my rig by placing them the way I’d naturally wear them—trying to keep cup placement consistent, stretching the headband over the rig, and calling it a day. But the more I dug in, the more obvious it got: positioning and coupling can change the sound a lot, and sometimes the “normal” way to wear a headphone isn’t even what the manufacturer seems to be aiming for. I use a pair of 1Odio headphones as the example—ones I’ve been negative on before because they came off as wildly bassy. When I repeatedly took them on and off the rig and re-measured, the graphs shifted a bit, but the big mid-bass hump stayed. Then I tried the “intended” style: pulling them so they sit slightly on-ear, crushing the back of the pinna to create an air gap. Uncomfortable? Yep. But the measurement changed hard—less of that huge bass emphasis, more of a roll-off that looks way more “reasonable” on a graph. Takeaway: you can’t treat headphone measurements (or even impressions) like they’re immune to fit. If you’re confused, I point you to Super* Review’s video, because it goes deeper on how position on the rig can completely change what you think you’re hearing.