Ever tried cupping your hands on your ears and immediately experience better sound? Ever notice that wild dingoes have really large ears and elephants too?
Would it be better to place main speakers on the left and the right sides of your listening position so you can capture more Sonic activity more directly? I've tried this with rear speakers and it works really well.
If God was more interested in listening to music, maybe he would've placed our ears on our forehead instead of on the sides of our skull.
Maybe someone can specially design cups to place on our ears to improve how Sonic activity is captured from main speakers.
I’m gonna order the Dixie cups from Amazon for about 10 bucks can I send you a pair?
I'd say, "Sure you can!" but A'gon won't let me tell you where to ship them to. So if you order them and review them, if they are any good, I'll order a pair myself.
When in high school we had a Sears "portable stereo" on a metal stand. The speakers were detachable. My friend and I would put the speakers on the floor and take turns putting our head in between. It greatly improved the bass and dynamic range. Not so great for setting up a soundstage... more like headphones.
I tried this 20 years ago at a dave Mathew’s concert in the rose garden. We had a concrete wall behind us and when I cupped my ears, the sound cleaned up drastically because I wasn’t hearing the sound bounce off the concrete wall.
I thank God for putting our ears on the sides of our head. It helps so we can hear all around us and can tell where sounds are coming from. Lets us appreciate the spatial qualities of live and recorded music.
When i first noticed some tinnitus in my right ear I messed around with cupping my ears with my hands and other things. Just wanted to try and get a handle on what was going on. For me, cupping just makes things louder and more irritating - YMMV. But, I suggest that if you think cupping makes your system sound better then you need to rethink your system, including room acoustics.
If you noticed almost all animal's ears are on the side of their head. evolution made them that way for a reason, most likely for location sensing of predators and pray. I do not think evolution was worried about your stereo separation etc. Reason cupping your hands around your ears seems to sound better to you is due to the fact you're getting more sound information and at a higher volume, similar to a horn strapped to the side of your head. Louder is not better just louder.
I was amazed at the improvement in sound using the Linn endorsed Tunedem method. Position of the speakers is correct when the music sounds the best to the listener, not when the measurements say it is correct.
While cupping ears may change the Sonics for the better, not sure how you came to the conclusion that speaker placement is wrong - the logic doesn’t follow.
We live in an illogical world. Quantum physics speaks to this quite well.
This situation I am basically channeling the sonic waves so they more directly reach the ear. So my thinking goes why not place the speakers on the left and right side of one’s skull. I tried this with rear speakers with home theater listening and it seems very effective so maybe two listening would work the same way.
It’s like everybody just assumes they should be sitting out there in front of you and maybe they should be suspended from the ceiling with very strong strings. And then some say to use headphones but I don’t like being confined in this manner.
I think I may be moving on to stamp and cover collecting. More opportunity to spend lots of money. I might be able to do both of these at the same time.
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