Headphones can create great ‘in ear’ bass, but it’s not in your chest now is it.
I totally agree I am enjoying “having” to use them until the amp returns and I am fortunate that I have a detached house so no volume issues but if we ever move in the future I could live with them rather than no music at a decent volumeYes, it doesn't have to be one or the other. Neither is either any more flawed than the other. Enjoy both for what they are.
I had an audiophile mate over yesterday, and we were musing as to the potential of having a subwoofer running with headphones, so we could feel the air moving.
I will have a go at it some time.
He had a go with my new Hifiman Edition XS. Changed his normally derisory viewpoint on headphones within a couple of tunes, but we both saw the Cans as an adjunct rather than any kind of replacement for loudspeakers.
^^^ThisIt's isn't so much headphones I dislike, but listening to stereo with them, especially with production that has hard pans left and right.
This is why something like a crossfeed, or binaural audio, helps to make headphone listening more natural. Stereo was designed for two speakers, where "crossfeed" naturally occurs in the room.
Recently moved house and found my allocated room was so bad acoustically that I sold the loudspeaker based kit and went to Headphones, very different and just did not enjoy, subsequently negotiated space in a better room and went back to loudspeakers, wonderful and enjoying music again.Why is that?
Some gaming chairs do this , i would recommend one of those.Given me an idea for a vibrating pad to place between your chair base, or back pad and cushion. Would replicate the psychical feeling of bass…
There was similar that vibrated and attached to your sofa for AV applications a while back I remember.
If someone could show me a headphone system that doesn’t sound like you have two speakers on your ears and the stage is basically in your head, rather than in free space then I’d be a complete convert.
I had an audiophile mate over yesterday, and we were musing as to the potential of having a subwoofer running with headphones, so we could feel the air moving.
And Jecklin Floats.I need to preface this by saying I just now saw this thread, for whatever reason, hence my reply 2+ months later.
But having said that, have you tried "earspeakers"? I understand that they are not your typical headphones, but then...
...I am talking (1) vintage AKG K-1000, (2) MySphere 3 (the latest reincarnation of the K-1000 paradigm, from the original designers), or (3) RAAL SR-1a?
They were the only headphones that I could bear to wear. I did (much later) have a pair of the Float 2s, but although they fitted the same, they didn't sound the same. So I sold them. I now have a pair of Meze 99 Classics in walnut, which I bought for their comfort. I think I have used them twice!I've always fancied trying Floats. Never got the chance.