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For me, I prefer headphones/speakers that have the correct frequency response even if I have to forfeit some of the imaging/spatial qualities of sound. What do you prefer?
It isn't not caring, but since there is a trade-off between those two, I rather getting better performance in the frequency response department than getting the best imaging/soundstage performance.But I find the idea of not caring about imaging to be equally ridiculous.
It isn't not caring, but since there is a trade-off between those two, I rather getting better performance in the frequency response department than getting the best imaging/soundstage performance.
Trade off? Not sure what you mean... I dont think more accurate FR negatively affects imaging.since there is a trade-off between those two, I rather getting better performance in the frequency response department than getting the best imaging/soundstage performance.
At different angle, the sound will be transformed into different frequency response due to our ear and body, that is how we know the direction of sound. At further distance, the sound will become lower in SPL, that is how we know the distance of sound. So if we can manipulate the frequency response, we can manipulate image and sound stage. SPL change will be fixed once the music is mastered, but people still experience difference in sound stage across different headphone or speaker, so there are still more things that "makes us feel" there is more sound stage, but in reality it is not in the recording and it is not sound stage but just the feeling of it.Can you explain to me more about this relationship? It would be helpful to understand more about this topic scientifically.
When you say frequency response, you're talking about an engineering feature, a characteristic of the output. Imaging is a perceptual experience based on timing and frequency-dependent amplitude of an acoustic event. So you're mixing domains, somewhat.Can you explain to me more about this relationship? It would be helpful to understand more about this topic scientifically.
.........or multichannel.I honestly can't see how that would have to be a choice. The experience is lessened if either is deficient unless we're talking mono.