Why do IEMs or headphones under $100 sound so much better than speakers five times their price?
Why do IEMs or headphones under $100 sound so much better than speakers five times their price?
Jack Williams
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Ryan Campbell
Because you aren't having the sound bounce off your entire room before hitting your ears.
Did you even think about the answer yourself before asking here?
Zachary Harris
Let me tell you a secret pal. $500 of acoustic treatment in the walls of your room are going to make your $100 speakers sound as good as $5000 speakers in a non-treated room.
Luis Allen
As somebody who fell INCREDIBLY hard for the multi room audio meme, it's because speakers are only effective if you are sitting in an incredibly fucking specific position in which case they are better, whereas the moment you step literally a FOOT outside of the sweet spot you may as well have worn headphones. It turns out I'm moving around constantly so speakers are useless aside from not having to be on your head.
Also in order for the room to have accurate sound in the first place it needs to be specially made and treated for acoustic characteristics.
Matthew Brooks
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Jordan Roberts
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Jace Young
Room modes. They still don't quite sound their money(although the most expensive part of my setup is the subwoofer) but it was rather eye-opening and there are things speakers do that IEMs and headphones can't.
Ethan Hernandez
i kept saying this for years to people falling for studio monitors meme. like they aint gonna magically make their mixing better if room is still shit and that they better off keeping whatever speakers they have and doing treatment with same money instead
Austin Young
so why do you treat the room? is it to reduce bouncing sound around? like the foam just absorbs it and you get to focus better on what is coming out of the speaker rather than the residue? really amateur fl studio producer here.
Austin Ortiz
all speakers sound about the same because of how we hear
Camden Johnson
No two speakers sound the same due to off-axis response.
Carter Cooper
Audio all sounds the same, you either hear it or you don't.
Sebastian Wright
it doesnt matter anymore once it reaches your ears
Joshua Sanchez
>$500 of acoustic treatment
Acoustic materials are all expensive as fuck.
$500 doesn't get you far at all.
Even if you use normal building materials like rockwool it's going to cost quite a lot to cover it up with fabric to make it look decent.
Bentley Hughes
Speakers have to move a whole lot more air than headphones.
They are many times the size and the power so it makes sense they cost many times more.
Daniel Bennett
The speakers in your picture is not supposed to sound "good". They're supposed to be exact. They're not meant for listening to music. They're meant for production environments.
The headphones in your picture looks like top of the range chinkshit. I'd rather not listen to music at all than to listen with those.
Also that guy is laying down. No wonder the speakers doesn't sound good to him. Try sitting in front of them, with the correct angle and tilt.
Jace Sanders
Good speakers sound more realistic with stereo tracks because that's literally what the music was mixed and mastered for. For speakers you can do acoustic treatment or even DIY acoustic treatment like youtube.com
IEMs and headphones don't have as much problems as speakers do, but there's a whole lot less binaural recordings than there are stereo tracks so presentation with most music is less realistic (less correct imaging/soundstage and more "in your head" sound). You can get your headphones or IEMs measured or measure them yourself and make an EQ preset with REW similar to how you would with speakers but with likely much better results. If you can't get them measured you can try autoEQ or an app like wavelet, but because of unit variance this could result in an inaccurate EQ preset. Personalized HRTF is an option with headphones and IEMs to get stereo tracks to have a more realistic presentation.
Ian Perry
actually speakers sound a lot better than headphones. even cheap ones
I find the localization for games even better
Luis Hughes
Yes, as an extreme example a completely untreated room will have so much reverb that you can literally use it as an audio effect youtube.com
Cooper Morales
>The speakers in your picture is not supposed to sound "good". They're supposed to be exact.
Same thing, really.
Joseph Johnson
>The speakers in your picture is not supposed to sound "good". They're supposed to be exact
A lot of studio gear sounds like shit and it's NOT intentional, and not even accurate. The real high end studio monitors are accurate and sound fantastic. And studio headphones are a complete joke, luckily they aren't actually using headphones for music production.
Sebastian Rodriguez
Yes, but not to a normie like OP