Electronic – RLC filters. How to determine band pass filter

In general, designing passive filters to work at the low, highly frequency dependent (i.e., reactive) and poorly-controlled impedances associated with things like headphones is not the best approach.

It would be better to attenuate the headphone signal as needed to run it into an active (opamp-based) filter with the desired characteristics, and then boost it back up to headphone levels at the output. The results will be much more stable and easier to fine-tune for specific applications.

In fact, you can purchase such units — both parametric and graphic headphone equalizers — off-the-shelf.

If you use this circuit on a regular basis I guess it would be worth to calculate its transfer function once and for all, so you can just easily evaluate it given the concrete component values. Doing the math you get (assuming an ideal OP)

$$H(\omega)=\frac{j\omega R_1C_1}{1+j\omega R_1C_1}\left(1+\frac{j\omega R_4C_2}{1+j\omega R_2C_2}\right)\tag{1}$$

A plot of (1) in dB with the specified component values looks like this (|H|/db vs f in Hz):

from which you can see that the -3dB point is at about \$250\,\text{Hz}\$.

If you further assume that

$$R_1C_1=R_2C_2=\tau$$

and if you denote the gain at large frequencies by

$$g=1+\frac{R_4}{R_2}$$

then with a bit more math you get this exact expression for the 3dB cut-off frequency in radians

$$\omega_c=\frac{1}{\tau}\sqrt{1-\frac{1}{g^2}+\sqrt{\left(1-\frac{1}{g^2}\right)^2+1}}\tag{2}$$

which with the given component values gives

$$\omega_c=2\pi\cdot 247.28$$

For a large gain \$g\gg 1\$, formula (2) is closely approximated by

$$\omega_c=\frac{1}{\tau}\sqrt{1+\sqrt{2}}\approx\frac{1.55}{\tau}\tag{3}$$