[up late]

speakers create a sounstage. cans create a "head stage" and sometimes they can fool you into thinking that you're hearing sounds "outside your head". i've not experienced that with earphones. haven't listened to a binaural recording but why should it work better with iems than cans?

 

[cspirou]

speakers create a sounstage. cans create a "head stage" and sometimes they can fool you into thinking that you're hearing sounds "outside your head". i've not experienced that with earphones. haven't listened to a binaural recording but why should it work better with iems than cans?

I was just stating my personal experience, but it does work with full size headphones as well. The issue I can see is that the binaural head is recording sound that has already been acoustically affected by a synthetic ear. If you are using a fullsize set of headphones then that sound is subjected to the acoustics of your ear a second time. The differences may end up being too small to make a difference but I wouldn't be surprised if people find IEMs more realistic with binaural recordings
 
Here is a nice binaural recording if you've never heard one before.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itLxXeyM2aM

 

[up late]

likewise. think we all are right? thanks for the link.

 

[zeissiez]

My Merlin sound more out of the head than my Momentum

 

[up late]

the hd800, abyss, k812, ps1000 and th900 all sounded more "out of head" than my ex1000 and k3003

 

[zeissiez]

of course most fullsize cans sound bigger than most IEMs. But I said some IEMs sound bigger than some closed fullsize can. Timbral? IEMs win hands-down

 

[up late]

sure in some instances iems could sound "bigger" than cans but don't forget that we're talking totl cans here. can't agree that iems have more timbral accuracy than cans period. surely that depends on which iems and cans you're referring to and it's a subjective claim anyways.

 

[rawrster]

Even with using a home rig for iems I don't consider them the same class. They can come close in some areas but as a whole they are still a step down imo.