headphones
John Williamson wrote:
geoff wrote:
Frank Stearns wrote:
This thread has been fascinating, and surprising.
I am startled by those who've indicated that imaging is poor to
non-existent on phones.
Yes, that's bizarre. "Exaggerated" would be my description !
So let's see a show of hands: how many folks find headphone imaging
"incorrect" or non-existent?
Not me. As bove !
I get a good miniature image of the sound stage that fits nicely
between my ears, except on binaural recordings.
Around and above the head, except if only pan-pot multimono, great imaging -
not real, no way, but translateable, but binaural breaks and sounds as if
from behind. Possibly because it is recorded with/for a size 57 head. Yes
also to Scotts observation that the first part of the pan-pot move is
expanded but for real stereo recording that is irrelevant. Looking - and
listening - back however a stereo mix for recording in the performance room
using headphones never gets right and once one learns what happens when
sliding tracks a few milliseconds around the why's of that get blatantly
obvious.
Kind regards
Peter Larsen
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