Audiophile recordings still are mixed and mastered to sound great on speakers.
I tried software plugins with foobar and AIMP and it improves subtly but definitely better the experience in IEM and headphone listening with many kinds of music, especially acoustic audiophile recordings or pre-eighties recordings, please remember the SONY Walkman was released in 1979 and the iPhone in 2007, somewhere in between those 30 years recording engineers switched to mixing and mastering commercial music to sound great on IEM, before that it was mastered to sound great on speakers.There's other headphone software that tries to replicate speakers, such as 'Out of Your Head': This, it is claimed, makes headphone listening more speaker like and less fatiguing.Īlternatively there are those that think that when we listen to speakers we should prevent this interaural crosstalk - see 'Ambiophonics'. A crossfeed processor creates the right side's signal for headphones. Of course on headphones we only get the left signal in the left ear. The theory behind it is that when we listen to speakers, the left ear for example not only receives the sound from the left speaker but also from the right, known as 'interaural crosstalk'. I can't help thinking that it was an interesting idea which in practice is not worth the trouble. Many high end headphone amps don't have it. I had it for years in a Headroom Blockhead but I now use another headphone amp with no crossfeed and don't miss it at all. Why do you want crossfeed? Have you heard it and found it to your liking?