So This Really Is The End....

Dear roxy54 friend,

You completely miss my point...

First :I do not advocate for headphone i dislike them generally ... I listen to one because i loose my room...I modify it and to my surprize this headphone please me enough to cure my sadness..

Second: I was describing in my above post VIRTUAL ROOM ACOUSTIC which already exist thanks to Dr Choueri ...

In virtual room acoustic, soon assisted by A. I. there will be no sound coming from headphone inside the head , it will be a complete room experience exactly as with speakers but with something on your head...No headphone give that now...Except with the Choueri Dac filters BACCH...

But without headphone and with speakers in the same way and WITHOUT the need for real acoustic treament and mechanic control of the room A. I. will be able to customize the sound before entering the speakers and will balance it for any kind of room even for virtual room it will do it to a level no equalization can do it right now... Choueri filters for example are not standard equalization...

There will be only a cost difference but the same experience with low cost headphone for those who want or costlier speakers for those who prefer nothing on their head...But no difference in sound quality... Thats is my point...

i did not advocate for headphone over speakers , i came to headphone by fate not by choice... Happily i succeed to make my headphone to my liking but most people dont modify headphones anyway ...But now headphone listening so good it is or was is different from speakers listening; confort, acoustic impressions, dynamics etc all is different between headphones and speakers for now ...

But tomorrow  with A. I. virtual room acoustic assistance this difference of acoustic experience will disapear... People will choose headphone or speakers not for sound difference but for difference of cost, less for headphone more for speakers but same sound qualities... That is my point...

Almost in all cases. 99% of the times speakers/ dedicated acoustic room exceed almost all headphone listening in quality ...it is my experience...Headphone are convenient for some and some prefer it because no need to tune any room...

But with virtual room acoustic for speakers or headphones, the difference will be only cost, and the possible unconfort for some people...No difference in soundfield experience will subsist as it is right now before A.I. acoustic assistance ... I hope i made myself clearer...

I forgot to say that speakers in a living room generally dont beat top headphones...But speakers in an acoustic room beat almost if not all headphones NOW on many if not on all acoustic factors it depend of the speakers specs design... With A. I. assistance there will be only cost and confort difference...No more sound experience differences..

@mahgister

".And headphone designed with deepest acoustic knowledge coupled to the Choueri Dac BACCH filter will render speakers in a living room useless..."

I must respectfully disagree. There are many who don’t enjoy the headphone experience, and I am one of them. Regardless of the sound quality, I find them uncomfortable and claustrophobic.

We lost "the exclusive company" a while  back. I haven't bought much media since. 😕 

47 years is a long relationship. I hope you can fill some of that void. 

10 years ago there were 3 record stores in my city, now there are 8. The new arrivals section is out the door, they don't know where to put them. Same at Goodwill, more boxes of records every day.

@mahgister i haven’t listened to headphones for years, now … only because I’m a single adult male and was able to spend an absurd amount of mooola on a real cool pair of big speakers.

I was way into headphones before I grew my business and got to a point that I could part with the bucks. I remember what a weird, or at least real awkward initial sensation it was to have something shoved down INside my ear canal … at first. And I need to say, my advice is: if you can bite the bullet and force yourself to every day for two weeks, I promise you the day after you will miss them and want to stick them back in so you can listen.

That’s my headphone story. I used to ride a very cool ducati ST2 when I used them and ❤️ed combining long riding sessions with long listening sessions. I’m talking about 500 miles a day, with very high quality tunes the whole way. I do miss it.

The headspace thing, which is akin to soundstage with big speakers, is sort of a different ball game all together. There’s the real advice, right?
I used to use a very soft rubber tip that had 3 flanges that gradually seal off the canal as it slides in. Called a Triple Flange. It makes it possible to easily pressurize the sound field consistently, perfectly, every single time you listen. Now that I’ve been into my big speakers as long as I have, I’d say that part can be equated with having a perfectly controlled and precise soundstage every single time.
 

I’ll have to do a lil research later, but I think I paid a relatively small amount for my first pair of IEM headphones. And as it turned out they were one of the best for the money audio purchases for me, period.

Especially for well recorded classical or Progressive Rock.

Hard to beat for the bang to buck ratio.

@goofyfoot Sorry about your loss, man.