On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:31:04 -0800, Sebastian Kaliszewski wrote
(in article ):
In the real world, gived proper recoring, your $$$$$ equipment stands no
chance against simple (but good) IEMs. Unless you plug some good
headphones / IEMs into your system.
Simply, try artificial head recording, for once 
OK, but how many true binaural recordings do you own? How about not many to
none? This is a very special case. Of course a recording can be optimized
for headphone listening, but talk about your niche markets! The vast majority
of modern recordings are made with speaker listening in mind. Perhaps with
the young migrating almost exclusively to iPod listening, pop record
producers ought to start thinking about recording with that kind of listening
in mind - in other words binaurally record all pop albums to sound their best
on earbuds! 8^)