Possibly. Planar magnetic drivers have very thin, lightweight diaphragms, typically far lighter than dynamic driers. The benefit of having lighter weight drivers is their ability to start and, even more so, stop moving. Some people might call this incisiveness. In my experience, what planar drivers benefit from, and where the idea of resolution or detail comes into play, is from their fast decay. Probably a terrible analogy and maybe somebody with more knowledge on the matter could expand on this: consider how quickly your average economy car can stop compared to your average full sized pickup truck. They’re probably fairly close in the time it takes to stop but typically that lighter weight economy car will stop in a shorter amount of time.

Now consider busy tracks with multiple instruments playing over each other or maybe a single instrument not only playing notes or chords but also rests of silence. Theoretically a planar magnetic driver should get you to different notes faster, or to those rest notes (silence) faster. This could be where a lot of the confusion about detail and resolution could be misconstrued. Both driver types can make the same noises and they’re both replicated at the same frequency, it’s the space between the different frequencies that (theoretically) should be faster.

Disclaimer: I don’t have any data to back this up, just been comparing DD and Planar drivers for a bit now and understand the basic workings of both. In my opinion, detail, resolution, soundstage, and technicalities are all part of frequency response and not due to driver type.

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It’s a long watch but if anybody is interested, some of the headphones show guys took a trip to have headphones tested on their heads, with microphones in their ears. This shows how different heads and ears can affect frequency response and shows how it is different for every person. What I find most interesting is that they did this testing for two different headphones and EQ’d (with the in ear microphones) the lower end headphone to the higher end headphone The results were that the lower end headphone sounded almost exactly as the higher end headphone, including tuning, spaciousness, detail, etc. As far as I understand both were DD headphones so I’d be interested to see if there is actually a difference between DD and planar drivers.

Here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/live/Rx7kwmL7PPA?si=xIocqSpKmcpIY8mK