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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> /|\/|\ For me, in stereo (unless I have it at full blast) I don't get
> headache, but in mono I do after about an hour and a half. /|\/|\
>
> I can't explain it, but I can say it happens to me as well. There is
> fatigue when I listen to monaural recordings, but only through headphones. I
> don't know why it is like that, but if anyone can shed some light on it, that
> would be cool.
>
> At first I thought it was just the radio (FM stations around here seem to
> be in a pissing contest to see who can compress and limit the most) but after
> getting my 702 and some monaural recordings under my belt, I realized it was
> the lack of stereo, too, as well as the compression/limiting. (My favorite
> stations are on AM or on FM but 70 miles away -- hence no stereo.)
>
> If anyone could explain it, that would be neat. It obviously doesn't happen
> with monaural sources piped through a speaker or speakers... Just
> headphones...
>
> ~Zach
> http://start.at/cens - The Cutting Edge of Nothing Significant
I'm guessing here but one possibility that springs to mind is that listening
to a mono source through headphones produces a very un-natural effect
whenever you move your head. The mono sound through headphones is
"seen" as being focussed directly in front of you, and as you move your
head the source moves also-- causing something not-unlike motion
sickness.
Now a stereo source through headphones is interpretad by the brain as
coming from a range of different positions so that moving the range is not
such an abnormal effect as moving one point. Still it is somewhat abnormal
which would explain why stereo thro' phones may cause a headache for
some, albeit after a longer period of listening.
It would also explain why speakers do not cause this problem, they are
fixed (unless mounted on rollers and attached to your head via some odd
mechanism :-) and so produce a natural sound source.
Well thats what I think-- it's all guesswork but seems a logical reason as
to why mono in headphones might cause a headache. Who says I can't
reply sensibly to an email and not slag-off Sharp :-)
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