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For people who have put significant effort into setting up a room with good acoustics and speakers; is the sound quality significantly better than good headphon
by benlivengood 6y ago
For people who have put significant effort into setting up a room with good acoustics and speakers; is the sound quality significantly better than good headphones?
I can understand the other reasons speakers are nice; being able to hear other things besides the audio playback, sharing the sound with other people at the same time, etc.
- aldanor 6y agoDepends on your definition of better. A lot of the time this will be done in a mixing room with studio monitors yielding as flat a response curve as possible (and without any room reverb). You will get a better sound in that it's precise, but it's not necessarily more pleasant to listen to. As for precision: it's easier to hear the panning / stage in good headphones just because it's so augmented. The low end - no matter how good the headphones are, you can't rely on them to mix it properly, you need good monitors. If you mix the low end on headphones, there's always a high probability that it will only sound good on this pair of headphones and not translate to other setups.
- lrem 6y agoI'm not a musician, but got recently a pair of Presonus Eris 3.5 monitors as my desk speakers. I find that more pleasant to use than headphones I have (AT BPHS1 and Bose QC35).
- hammock 6y agoHeadphones artificially increase the size of the stereo soundstage, that is one reason why it is preferred to mix audio on speakers