jaieger
Head-Fier
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Just wondering, and I've been wondering about this for a while:
how do headphone makers manipulate the sound? How does the creator of any given headphone know what to manipulate - the drivers, the housing, etc., and how, to produce the desired effect (more/less bass, warm the sound up or make it colder, etc.)? Or is it a hit-and-miss elimination process for brands to find formulas of certain housings with certain drivers, etc., to find what works and can effectively produce a desired sound?
Also, how does soundstage work? This ties into the above, but...: how do headphones, or even moreso, IEMs, produce that out-of-head sound? For a brief moment the first time I considered this I thought gravity had an effect on this LOL but then I figured if IEMs can be worn over ear with the same sound, that's obviously not the case. So, yeah, how does soundstage work?
how do headphone makers manipulate the sound? How does the creator of any given headphone know what to manipulate - the drivers, the housing, etc., and how, to produce the desired effect (more/less bass, warm the sound up or make it colder, etc.)? Or is it a hit-and-miss elimination process for brands to find formulas of certain housings with certain drivers, etc., to find what works and can effectively produce a desired sound?
Also, how does soundstage work? This ties into the above, but...: how do headphones, or even moreso, IEMs, produce that out-of-head sound? For a brief moment the first time I considered this I thought gravity had an effect on this LOL but then I figured if IEMs can be worn over ear with the same sound, that's obviously not the case. So, yeah, how does soundstage work?