Originally Posted By: Janice & Bud
I get that many folks including some pros mix with phones. I’m not being dismissive of that.

What I don’t get is this. With my monitors I’m hearing, for example, a left pan in both ears while with phones I only hear it in the left ear. From my perspective this alone “colors” the sound differently, i.e., a different soundstage than what I would hear through speakers.

I guess with the earbud crowd it makes no difference. That’s the way they hear about everything...at least until their high frequency range is obliterated smile

Bud


Bud if ‘the earbud crowd’ represents a vast swath of the music consumption population and in particular of that’s your market, that’s why you also mix for headphone playback as one of the listening modes, just as you do for mono playback which has also become popular one again with the lions share of Bluetooth speakers acting like point sources even if there are stereo speakers in the little box most of them are in. Get a few feet away and you effectively have a mono signal arriving at the ears. Not true if you have two of these devices going in stereo mode, which Apple finally offered in the latest iOS update.

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