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Well the physical comfort isn't really the main issue, but yeah I guess I don't like having something resting on my ears for more than say 30-60 minutes at a ti
by chubot 6y ago
Well the physical comfort isn't really the main issue, but yeah I guess I don't like having something resting on my ears for more than say 30-60 minutes at a time.
I would flip it on its head: Why headphones? To me the only advantages of headphones are (1) not disturbing people near you and (2) traveling. For everything else I would use speakers!
The other things I don't like are:
- the cable following me around, especially if I'm mobile (and that applies to ear buds too).
- the feeling of being cut off from sounds around me.
- Admittedly a niche complaint, but for music: I don't like the stereo imaging of headphones. Compared to good speakers, it's an unnatural stereo field -- although I realize not everyone is sensitive to that. Depends what you listen to as well.
- gcatalfamo 6y agothe problem with speakers - which I love - is that they don't live well with a microphone as two separate peripherals. How did you solve this?
- chubot 6y agoGood point, that's another reason to use headphones -- if you're also using a microphone! There's no way to really solve this! I think there are some hacks, but the music and TV pro solution is to use in-ear monitors. Good thread where someone suggests using monitors to reduce fatigue on video conference: https://twitter.com/samuelmehr/status/1309672535190102016 https://twitter.com/samuelmehr/status/1309672535190102016 I haven't tried it, but it makes a lot of sense. Knowing how loud your own voice relative to others' is seems like a key benefit. ---- I use speakers to listen to lectures and podcasts, and it's 100% a win IMO, but yeah they don't work well if your voice also has to be recorded unfortunately ...