tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181224503986200286.post6370848394671180613..comments2011-05-25T18:55:15.720+08:00Tai / ClieOShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06397854823276676128noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181224503986200286.post-56809229636113931962011-05-25T18:55:15.720+08:002011-05-25T18:55:15.720+08:00If you have aged and have &quot;funny&quot; dips in your hearing, they will be there as much if you listen to speakers as if you listen to headphones. This is not something that can really be compensated without the compensation sounding unnatural since this is the way you hear sounds in the real world.<br /><br />Room acoustics and all that is another thing. But frankly I would prefer headphones to leave these compensations out as well, letting the acoustics of the recording come through, whether they reflect the recording environment or post-processing, like reverbs or delays. This is the reason why the more reasonable audiophiles consider acoustic improvement of the room more important than the equipment they use to play the sound: they want to take the room acoustics away so that the acoustics of the source material can shine through. I do not want my headphones to add such distorting acoustics.<br /><br />But there is one thing a headphone, especially a canalphone, should do to colour the sound: that is to take into account the way your head and particularly your pinnae modify the sound before it enters the ear canal. These actually exert a tremendous influence, and this is also something that is very individual. Each one of us has a brain that has learned the specific peaks and troughs caused in the FR becasue of our heads and pinnae, and these are the things that allow us to locate sounds in 3D space rather than just on a plane - i.e. they give us a sensation of a sound coming from above vs. below or from ahead vs. behind. Of course, people&#39;s ears do share some similarities, but no two people have the same exact ears - which leads to each person having slightly different dips and troughs in the FR of sounds reaching their ear canals. In other words, there is no one correct way to colour the sound of canalphones: some will be a better mach for you personally than others, better reflecting the way your pinnae and head affect the sounds you hear out there in the real world.Laurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10410164811683163012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181224503986200286.post-68727143325450727372011-04-12T02:46:52.640+08:002011-04-12T02:46:52.640+08:00Fabulous !!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181224503986200286.post-35234913429877567192010-05-16T23:33:02.096+08:002010-05-16T23:33:02.096+08:00Indeed.Tai / ClieOShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06397854823276676128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181224503986200286.post-51566487410483929392010-05-16T18:50:14.644+08:002010-05-16T18:50:14.644+08:00&quot;tentacle sensation&quot; - really?<br /><br />Or did you mean tactile?Steven Waynenoreply@blogger.com