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In Reply to: one more thing posted by mbnx01 on July 22, 2014 at 21:27:43:
Not quite...With headphones, I do notice things I've never noticed before. The downside to this upside is that I must also learn to ignore some things I've never been forced to ignore before.
The sonic details of "direct sound" are to be heard when listing with headphones. The resonant chambers of headphone earcups do provide a bit of indirect sound in pantomime form, but this is unlike the mixture you get with stereo loudspeakers. That said, I'm convinced that there are a few types of sounds and feelings that are more successfully reproduced by loudspeakers. As if certain subtle ambient clues are lost or un-created during the translation to headphones, loudspeakers sometimes have the edge in detail reproduction.
Eliminating the room with headphones does let me hear the direct sound of the recording. But, because the room has been eliminated, the headphone prevents me from hearing details that *only present themselves in open-air acoustics*. A truly good loudspeaker system presents direct sound and reflected sound in optimal balance for an individual listener. The secondary reflections in a loudspeaker system are in fact part of the glory of the loudspeaker system. An agreeable mixture of sound works to re-create sonic details while providing a sense of "air" in the loudspeaker system. Binaural recordings greatly help to restore this particular type of realism to headphone listening, but really good binaural recordings have been a rarity in the marketplace so far.
All along the circular, measured steps on the porch of the Pantheon I see headphones sitting just below the loudspeakers. Things might change in the future as headphone recordings and headphone systems become better and more sophisticated.
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