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5. Re: Mixing using Headphones

Subject: 5. Re: Mixing using Headphones
From: "robin_parmar_sound" robin_parmar_soun=
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Date: Sat May 26, 2012 6:00 pm ((PDT))

Jez wrote:

> Likewise there are no speakers designed
> specifically for them & so, in one sense,
> expecting a monitor to be 'neutral' for
> natural sounds when its been designed to
> handle electronically produced sounds or
> tuned acoustic instruments is just not possible.

So you believe sound waves to be structurally and acoustically different de=
pending on the source? That is an unusual contention. If it were true then =
electrical circuits and speakers themselves would be unlikely to function.

> The idea of a 'neutral' acoustic is
> only an invention & it differs widely from
> person to person,

Er, no, since it is defined in terms of room acoustics. Rooms do not differ=
 from person to person. People's experience of the rooms might, but that is=
 not the same thing, and not what tuning a room addresses. (Which is why it=
 does not even require a human listener.)

> its all subjective.

Acoustics is physics which is not subjective. Since all our analogue and di=
gital devices do indeed function in the (non-subjective) world, we can be p=
retty sure that our physics is correct.

Hearing and personal interpretation is another matter. But you are confusin=
g matters.

-- Robin Parmar







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