Yes headphones suck. The sound in your head is nothing like real life and significantly worse than listening to stereo on loudspeakers. Having said that, binaural over headphones has the potential to be far more realistic than stereo over loudspeakers (apart from the bass which would still...

> May be. But when your are watching TV or a DVD you would normally look in > the direction of the TV, right? I may have misunderstood the thrust of your point. I was not distinguishing between listening to music and watching movies. I rarely do the latter and did not look at the TV screen...

> HFat: For that matter, ever tried a regular DT880? In my experience, it > alleviates the "in the head" issue. Apart from a few minutes yesterday no. Physics would seem to be against it being a significant improvement but I will check it out. > JensL: I'm really hoping to hear the...

Good to see the DT880 getting votes for comfort. Thanks for that. Concerning the head motion, it seemed to work but the binaural was not quite right and so I cannot have confidence in what was working well and what was not. The source was unknown and must be considered a possible, if not...

> How is that going to be different? The instruments stay where they should be like with speakers rather than moving around with your head like traditional headphones. This aspect worked fairly well although you could not move your head too far. The system is also binaural or, at least...

I am currently constrained to using headphones in order to listen to music in the evening and have been mainly using a pair Sennheiser HD600s which are comfortable enough but I still dislike the "in head" sensation. To be fair, the dislike has reduced from significant to mild but has hung around...