I see this a different way.
I use headphones purely because they are better than my speakers for the tiny detail you usually lose by ambient noise, speaker to ear distance etc etc. it makes me feel very intimate with the source music (although this is comparing electrostatic headphones to cone based speakers, but the same used to apply to my hd-650's)
What you do not get though is the same presence with speakers and you can never replicate the soundstage you can achieve with speakers. Binaural and the like are great but you still have a small narrow soundstage around your head.
Not a fantastically deep, wide (and tall sometimes) soundstage you can achieve with speakers.
So i use headphones for one thing and speakers for another.
With reference to the article...
I have never been impressed with anything Dolby based and this has again proved my point. Sound is such a delicate thing. You must do the least possible to it as possible. Any post processing of the sound is a bad idea in my book.
Headphones are headphones not speakers. Stop trying to make them something they can not achieve by playing with the audio signal with lots of nasty digital processing.
Surround sound is sound all around you produced by multiple speakers (more than 2) which gives audio all around you.
Stereo provides a soundstage which can give a very accurate image of the original soundstage (the area where the music was performed).
A soundstage has depth and breadth and can sometimes give height. Not many people here will have heard this properly as it involves setting your speakers up to your room properly.
Although you can achieve a much better soundstage yourself by separating your speakers by as much as possible (at least a 1m) and sitting a fair distance from them, unlike almost every PC audio system i see which involves some speakers 0.5m apart with the listener 0.3m away from them.
The reason surround sound can not have an accurate soundstage is due to rear speakers and a centre speaker. As soon as they produce any noise at all they kill a nice accurate stereo image or soundstage. If you have a 5.1 setup try using it in stereo (front L and R only) with the speakers apart and you a far distance from them. Then listen to the same piece of music (a simple piece of music would be best or classical) with the centre channel outputting sound too.
So, basically:
Surround sound produces music all around you which is unrealistic to the original performance. When do you ever sit in the middle of a band with them circled around you?
A stereo soundstage is an accurate image of the original performance.
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So so freaky..
now that is brilliant! even works up and down!
I use headphones purely because they are better than my speakers for the tiny detail you usually lose by ambient noise, speaker to ear distance etc etc. it makes me feel very intimate with the source music (although this is comparing electrostatic headphones to cone based speakers, but the same used to apply to my hd-650's)
What you do not get though is the same presence with speakers and you can never replicate the soundstage you can achieve with speakers. Binaural and the like are great but you still have a small narrow soundstage around your head.
Not a fantastically deep, wide (and tall sometimes) soundstage you can achieve with speakers.
So i use headphones for one thing and speakers for another.
With reference to the article...
I have never been impressed with anything Dolby based and this has again proved my point. Sound is such a delicate thing. You must do the least possible to it as possible. Any post processing of the sound is a bad idea in my book.
Headphones are headphones not speakers. Stop trying to make them something they can not achieve by playing with the audio signal with lots of nasty digital processing.
Or you could just get these headphones if you don't have a surround sound setup. Only downside is lack of bass, 50Hz :'(
now that was different and it worked.
Stereo provides a soundstage which can give a very accurate image of the original soundstage (the area where the music was performed).
A soundstage has depth and breadth and can sometimes give height. Not many people here will have heard this properly as it involves setting your speakers up to your room properly.
Although you can achieve a much better soundstage yourself by separating your speakers by as much as possible (at least a 1m) and sitting a fair distance from them, unlike almost every PC audio system i see which involves some speakers 0.5m apart with the listener 0.3m away from them.
The reason surround sound can not have an accurate soundstage is due to rear speakers and a centre speaker. As soon as they produce any noise at all they kill a nice accurate stereo image or soundstage. If you have a 5.1 setup try using it in stereo (front L and R only) with the speakers apart and you a far distance from them. Then listen to the same piece of music (a simple piece of music would be best or classical) with the centre channel outputting sound too.
So, basically:
Surround sound produces music all around you which is unrealistic to the original performance. When do you ever sit in the middle of a band with them circled around you?
A stereo soundstage is an accurate image of the original performance.
Really nice recording. Sounds a lot like a Kunstkopf recording?
Have you guys ever heard the Stephen Kind Kunstkopf audio book? Bloody brilliant!
more nice links:
http://www.soundman.de/deutsch/audio_examples_de.htm
http://www.hobbythek.de/archiv/331/#12
especially:
stereo mic vs. kunstkopf
http://www.hobbythek.de/archiv/331/st_bahnhofshalle.mp3
http://www.hobbythek.de/archiv/331/kk_bahnhofshalle.mp3
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