I understand things need to progress, but with this changes I think you rendered the whole thing useless..

Just check the Sound Quality ranking: https://www.rtings.com/headphones/tests/sound-quality

With the 1.2 version it was very easy to see which headphones had a better Overall score, but now that Bass/Mid/Treble are not factored in, it’s impossible to get a clear idea..

It’s a bit of a mess, and the test factors don’t help in determining which headphones are really better in an Overall sense..

-Peaks/Dips and Weighted Harmonic Distortion are surely Welcome additions, as much as CSD, DRC or Impedance Driveability will be..

But right now P/D has too much weight on the overall result, which without factoring the original Bass/Mid/Treble score is in itself not as clear and determining.

The subjective/objective description/analysis or derived result of the Sound Profile is an interesting addition, as it can help ppl understand what kind of headphone it is.. But I think this should be just part of the description, and not something to factor-in directly.. or at least, I don’t see it as a direct replacement of the old system.

What I would do is just: (updated) 1.- Keep the Original system with the Sound Quality Score and the Bass/Mid/Treble system, and (maybe) add the Peaks/Dips result as a small % or factor in it.

The new values could be: 20%-Bass, 19%-Mid, 18%-Treble, 5%-FR Consistency, 9%-Imaging, 18%-Soundstage, 6%-Weighted Harmonic Distortion, 5%-Peaks/Dips

And perhaps, also give the user the option to adjust the percentual values, or included factors themselves, so they can tailor the results to their preference.

2.- Let the Sound Profile and Neutral Score evaluation have its own section, where you can show the Objective results derived from the FR and other analysis.

Make the Graph in this section be Interactive, letting the user select the FR Target of their interest (RTINGS, Harman, Free-Field, Diffuse-Field..), and showing the accordingly compensated result.

This section could also have a Description with all the Subjective Impressions/Opinions that you gather from the headphones, so we can know how they sound in themselves, but also in comparison/relation with other headphones..

Having both the cold Technical derived results, and a more elaborated Subjective description/comparison will help us having a clearer idea.. plus having its own extended section, will make the whole review more thorough and complete.

(This is just my initial impression, we still need to digest all this.. lol But really, I think it’s clear that the Rankings are very confuzzled now, and don’t help you much in determining what’s better Overall, but rather what’s better on Isolated factors like say only Soundstage, only Imaging etc..)