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Ideal transducers have perfectly uniform response to incoming pressure waves, regardless of frequency. In practice, piezoelectric transducers are designed with a particular center frequency (CF) and are most sensitive to signals with strong frequency content near CF, bandpass filtering signal - and reconstructed images. We characterized the frequency dependent receive sensitivity of three single-element transducers with CFs ranging from 1 to 3.5 MHz. The resulting sensitivity response curves are applied to ideal thermo/photo/opto-acoustic (TPOAT) signals generated by ideal spherical absorbers to show the impact of transducer frequency response on measured TPOAT data and reconstructed images.