tiberiuspv
New Head-Fier
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Thanks for the detailed info, Milosz. I'll give them a call next week after I have received the 950.
All this talk about headphone "soundstage".....
I don't know about this, to me there's a lack of imaging to all headphones. My Quad ESL-57's and my DEQX-triamped Magneplanar MG 3.6's- now there I hear imaging- depth, lateral staging- sometimes even height.
But headphones? Well there IS a "space" represented but even on well-miked binarual material it all sounds "in-the-head" to me.
All this talk about headphone "soundstage".....
I don't know about this, to me there's a lack of imaging to all headphones. My Quad ESL-57's and my DEQX-triamped Magneplanar MG 3.6's- now there I hear imaging- depth, lateral staging- sometimes even height.
But headphones? Well there IS a "space" represented but even on well-miked binarual material it all sounds "in-the-head" to me.
I guess with some headphones "my head sounds bigger" than others... but this isn't necessarily a good thing, phase or other time-domain inconsistencies that vary with frequency or between left and right drivers will cause soundstage to increase, but this soundstage isn't in the recording, it's an artifact of the transducers or electronics. So I don't know what to make of these sonic spatial differences, because there's no standard to compare them to - they don't sound "real" like speakers can, and so comparing the sound to an actual music venue doesn't work. The psychoacoustic process of creating an image doesn't work with headphones. (Although maybe with a Smyth Realizer it does; I've never heard one but the premise looks interesting.)
On rare occasions with the right material I've had a brief illusion of being able to "hear through" to another real acoustic space, typically on certain orchestral recordings. The illusion is fleeting.
I guess you haven't tried Isone Pro software? I have never heard the realizer but I can only assume that it is an enhanced version of what the Isone software does for me. Until I started using Isone I also felt that headphones could never compete with speakers. The setup is no fun but once you get it right I think it will surprise you.
Isone Pro is just a less sophisticated room & speaker emulation plug-in. Both have some overlap in functionality.