Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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A deep look into the age-old Q around Speakers vs Headphones. Headphones have become very fashionable lately, esp with the addition of software trickery, I say, as I always have, that this is part of the reason that people struggle for so long trying to mix.
This is an hour-long lecture with examples, all broken into chapters.

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Chapters
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:02 Real World
00:04:29 Speakers: Real World Analog
00:12:56 Headphones: Out of the World
00:18:59 The Treated Room Myth
00:20:17 The Treated Headphone Lie
00:23:24 The Adjusting Brain
00:26:43 Referencing
00:29:39 Dangers
00:38:24 Ways To Fake It
00:39:04 Crosstalk
00:43:33 Speaker Profiles
00:44:14 Now with Music
00:45:50 back to Speaker Profiles
00:52:22 Is this even a Great Idea?
00:55:53 Conclusion