Dallas Hinton - Anton Shepelev:

> AS> The major drawback of any stereo is the loss of defintion on
> AS> account of "cross signals" -- from right speaker to left ear
> AS> and vice versa.
>
> Which is why I use headphones for really critical listening! :-)

Good headphones are indeed indispensible for critical listening
from the the technical, sound engineering, point of view (or
hearing?), but I never get either the visceral or the spiritual
effect that a good loudspeaker has to offer!

Such great musisicans as Elvis Presely at Sun Records or Fats
Domino at J&M Music Shop (the leading independent Studio in 1950's
New Orlears, run by Cosimo Matassa), used loudspeakders for and
listening to their own takes.

Even the legendary Mercury Living Presnence relied upon three
"Voice of Theatre" loudpeakers, because they recorded with three
micropones.

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