13-05-2014, 08:23 AM
The question about headphone-listening is quite interesting and important. I haven't seen any statistics of people's listening habbits, but I'm quite sure nowadays music is much more consumed through headphones.
Personally I listen quite much with headphones, but I prefer to mix with speakers if it it's possible. But panning decisions are totally different for me in those two listening modes. Maybe for the same reason I have never dared to use real LCR-mixing decisions. But many top mixers use it, and they certainly know much more than a sunday driver like me. But on the other hand, there's also many top mixers that don't use it.
Some 30 years ago I remember there were some headphone amplifiers where one can control how much the channels blend to each other. The reason was to make listening experience more similar to the normal listening situation.
Personally I listen quite much with headphones, but I prefer to mix with speakers if it it's possible. But panning decisions are totally different for me in those two listening modes. Maybe for the same reason I have never dared to use real LCR-mixing decisions. But many top mixers use it, and they certainly know much more than a sunday driver like me. But on the other hand, there's also many top mixers that don't use it.
Some 30 years ago I remember there were some headphone amplifiers where one can control how much the channels blend to each other. The reason was to make listening experience more similar to the normal listening situation.