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RE: -N-O-T- TRUE.

Posted by rick_m on March 4, 2011 at 11:55:29:

Oh I'm not against speakers, I use them most of the time. I'm using them right now.

But as you said: "I think we're a lot closer to perfecting headphone reproduction than we are to perfecting reproduction through speakers". I think that's typically been true but is especially nowadays where they are the prime transducers for so many people. I still have my decades old audio-technica Electret ones which beat most speakers but their transformer box rather limits their portability. The most interesting new ones I have are Koss clip-ons for which I paid $14. They pinch the pinnea a little but just do a startling job of plunking me right into the middle of the performance which much to my surprise I find I like. And, pinching aside, you hardly know you have them on. The first time I used them I stood up and turned around and got a brain cramp because the sound didn't shift with the movement so I guess it was adequately spoofed.

Perhaps if I had an RF version of them with a headband and a little pinwheel dipole on the top going speakerless might work. One thing's for sure, there are many more viable options and paths to good sound now than there were even twenty years ago and I think that's a good thing.

If we were both thinking of head-turning sound (tm) can Apple be far behind?

Rick