[Scott[_6_]]

On Jan 30, 4:22=A0pm, ScottW wrote:
On Jan 30, 7:21=3DA0am, Scott wrote:


OK thanks for clarifying. Whether or not earbuds have greater clarity
as you have defined it, the aural presentation is so far removed from
any illusion of an original soundstage one gets from live acoustic
music that it is a deal breaker if that aural illusion is what one is
persuing.

=A0 =A0A deal breaker for you, not necessarily everyone.

I agree if one is deaf or at least near deaf in one ear and simply
can't hear directionality. Then it *may* not be a deal breaker.
otherwise it absolutely is. No way anyone who can hear
stereophonically will hear anything like an illusion of real
instruments playing in a real soundspace.