onlyconnect
pfm Member
When you listen to stereo via loudspeakers both ears hear both channels.
When you listen to stereo via headphones the right ear hears only the right channel, the left ear only the left channel.
Huge difference. On the face of it, it seems like it would be hard to optimize a mix for both scenarios.
You could fix this, maybe, by simulating speakers in headphones (hard to do the other way round). This would mean mixing some of the left channel into the right and vice versa. But I've never seen this option on an amplifier (I'm sure someone has thought of it though).
I would say the proportion of music heard through headphones/earbuds etc has increased greatly in the last 20 years. Perhaps a lot of music is actually mixed primarily for headphones now?
Tim
When you listen to stereo via headphones the right ear hears only the right channel, the left ear only the left channel.
Huge difference. On the face of it, it seems like it would be hard to optimize a mix for both scenarios.
You could fix this, maybe, by simulating speakers in headphones (hard to do the other way round). This would mean mixing some of the left channel into the right and vice versa. But I've never seen this option on an amplifier (I'm sure someone has thought of it though).
I would say the proportion of music heard through headphones/earbuds etc has increased greatly in the last 20 years. Perhaps a lot of music is actually mixed primarily for headphones now?
Tim