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How many of you value or adore good soundstaging capabilities in a loudspeaker setup? If so, how easy (or how difficult?) is it for you to give up the "soundstage" you are used to hearing when you turn to your headphone rig, with it's "headstage" replacement?
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As Travis said, I listen to headphones for what they can do best, intimacy and great focus on the music. But like all music reproduction, they require suspension of disbelief -- clearly it's not a real performance happening between my ears.
I find it easier to relax into the illusion with speakers than with headphones, and I suspect that soundstaging is only part of the reason why.
Just my $.02
"Knowing what you don't know is, in a sense, omniscience"
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I value good soundstaging capabilities in a loudspeaker setup. I also value what headphones can do. Is there a problem?
"If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
Fortunately, I don't have to give up Loudspeakers over Headphones.
However, a good friend of mine explained that tubed headphone amps do an excellent job of altering the sound stage sufficiently enough so that it no longer seems as if the music is coming down from above your head. I would agree with my friends observations. I'm looking to get a new set of phones, and I think I'm through with open air type. I want better bass than my Senn HD535's ever delivered.
"You have to get in the middle of it. You have to take sides. Make a contribution to the fight. Any fight. The one you believe in." Private Arnold Epstein
You can get good bass out of open air headphones but it's usually more expensive than the headphones you own. In closed, the Denon line seems like a good bet. Start with the AH-D2000.
In open, some of the new planar magentics have really deep bass but they can be pricey.
"If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
Excellent recommendation! I have a pair of AH-D2000's and love them. I also
trust they will save me from too much audiolust when I listen to the high-priced phones at RMAF this year...
You cannot save people from lust. Just a tip. :^ )
"If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
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