headphones
Ed Seedhouse writes:
On Oct 25, 3:37=A0am, Edmund wrote:
I am not interested in (d)equalizing or adjusting for my personal
hearing imperfections, I am interested in sound reproduction as
real as can be.
Then you shouldn't be interested in any headphones at all, since they
distort the sound field so that it appears between your ears with a
mono source being in the middle of your head between your ears.
There is nothing "realistic" about that and no headphone to date has
solved the problem.
Now I use and enjoy various headphones and the musical experience can
be excellent, but never ever do they approach realism, even on a
binaural recording. There are just too many confounding variables
that no headphone can ever be expected to reproduce.
Occasionally I have heard sonic images well off to the left and right
of my head, but never any imaging out front or out back.
I once tried on a pair of 'high-end' headphones, and was disappointed. They
sounded like crap compared with my 'mid-fi' system. I think headphone
listening is an acquired taste. I would only take it up if for some reason I
couldn't listen to my home system at levels that I enjoy (say, a complaining
neighbor or family member). So far I haven't run into that situation.
Terry
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