I Just Found a Really Neat Trick That Makes Closed Headphones Sound Quite Bearable! What is Going On?
Feb 27, 2017 at 2:01 AM Thread Starter Post #1 of 5

Dyslectric

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I don't know why or how this works, but If I am using my ath-m30x's and I take a headphone off, and listen to my headphones with one ear and my speakers with another, then it seems to trick my right ear (the one that I am listening to my headphones with) and makes the headphone sound freakin excellent! I have never heard open ear headphones yet, but I feel like this is what they are going to sound like and I can't wait to get some so I can hear this excellence in both ears! Does anyone know the science behind this? Has this already been explored? Plz Reply.
 
Feb 27, 2017 at 3:57 AM Post #2 of 5
My guesstimation is that you would really enjoy good speakers. I imagine the effect is essentially merging the live room with the more direct and linear presentation of the headphone.

I don't imagine it would sound anything like open headphones.. the amount of environmental interaction you get from them is so low in comparison to what you are experiencing.
 
Feb 27, 2017 at 4:49 PM Post #3 of 5
What are you using to play music?
 
You might benefit from some crossfeed with your closed headphones.
 
You can try it for free.
 
Grab the Foobar2000 player using the Meier Crossfeed plugin.
 
http://www.foobar2000.org/
 
http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_dsp_meiercf
 
Feb 28, 2017 at 9:14 AM Post #4 of 5
  What are you using to play music?
 
You might benefit from some crossfeed with your closed headphones.
 
You can try it for free.
 
Grab the Foobar2000 player using the Meier Crossfeed plugin.
 
http://www.foobar2000.org/
 
http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_dsp_meiercf

I really want to use foobar, but it is rather clunky for my tastes.:/ But, I am going to try it for that crossfeed plugin, though.
 
Feb 28, 2017 at 10:43 PM Post #5 of 5
  I don't know why or how this works, but If I am using my ath-m30x's and I take a headphone off, and listen to my headphones with one ear and my speakers with another, then it seems to trick my right ear (the one that I am listening to my headphones with) and makes the headphone sound freakin excellent! I have never heard open ear headphones yet, but I feel like this is what they are going to sound like and I can't wait to get some so I can hear this excellence in both ears! Does anyone know the science behind this? Has this already been explored? Plz Reply.

 
So one ear is listening to speakers and the other is listening to one channel of a headphone driver?
 
You might as well just use speakers than half arse it. Whatever benefits you think you're getting is just one ear not having the inherent problem of headphones, ie, both instead of just one driver, which helps with imaging, but the way you're doing it, the other ear is still listening to just one channel off the headphone.
 

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