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Headphones vs loudspeakers

Could you tell why headphones sound better than loudspeakers in general? When listening to music through headphones you hear more details, more ambiance and at the same time the sound is more pure than through loudspeakers. It's also as if you can listen to inferior CD-player without sacrificing much of the sound quality. Even with an excellent audio system the sound has less immediacy and is not so detailed as with headphones. What is the problem with audio systems? Are we dealing with psychoacoustics or...?

Chris
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undertow
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Simple answer, because speakers to be equal to headphones would need to be sealed to your head! In otherwords the outside environment your speakers are running in is over 50% of the sound results which is just as important as the speakers themselves... Headphones are not in a room, hell they are not even really capable of making too many mistakes as they are 1" from your eardrum.

Its similar to sitting in a car with a good stereo system, its almost a sealed speaker all in itself, the evironment is much more controlled.
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