Asylum Seeker
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Personally, I do not use cross-feed and have no use for it on my system since I prefer inaudible cross-talk on my sound reproduction system. Cross-feed defeats that purpose and thus present imaging that is not true to the source. IEMs and headphones have different perceived imaging so even cross-feed switches or DSP cross-feed will NOT correct the imaging of headphones to the way the sound is presented through speakers. The common theory that I know of is that cross-feed helps older recordings sound tolerable on headphones. I certainly enjoy the way my CA Andromeda IEM images the sound without any additional cross-feed whatsoever. BTW, I've demoed my CA Andromeda through Chord Hugo 2 with those cross-feed switches and yep they turn my CA Andromeda to crappy imaging (to my subjective opinion) after flipping the cross-feed switches or balls in this case to any of "low, medium, high" settings
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Ok, we can safely assume that you don't know the theory of how crossfeed operates since, after being asked a few times, you are clearly unable to articulate it. Under discussion are not your personal preferences, your personal habits, your subjective opinion or specific equipment. Lest it still be unclear to you, this is an objective discussion about how the theory of cross-feed extends--or does not extend--to crosstalk in headphones. That you use or do not use, that you like or do not like, that you have tried or have not tried crossfeed has no relevance to the discussion.
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