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In the Thread: Headphone amplifiers. Baby Melquiades?
Post Subject: Re: Masochistic headphone amplifier!Posted by Thorsten on: 3/28/2006
Roman,
 Romy the Cat wrote: |
| I have learned today that there is something g deeply wrong with it. |
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Not quite. What is wrong is not the Amplifier, but the use of headphones to replay recordings made for speaker reproduction. The way this pushes the music "into your head" is dissonant with normal experience and causes stress.
It is a direct reason for my own "I f...ing hate 'can's" sentiments.
There is no solution, except to use only headrelated recordings for headphone listening. The usual Linkwitz style crossfeed with additional free-field EQ can reduce the stress levels but it does not eliminate them.
I have been using headphones only "on the move" and with the recent use of my pocket PC as source I now use MP3's pre-equalised and crossfeed processed, which keep me sane for around two hours straight, maybe three at the outermost. Using normal recordings straight limits me to less than 30 Minutes and that is on the move in a noisy envoironment, listening to normal recordings on 'cans for any span of time is impossible for me.
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