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Re:Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio by qart on Monday May 17, 2021 @01:47PM (#27186074)
> That's why I always tend to bail out of audiophile discussion but I'll bite: why?

Disclaimer: I am definitely not an audiophile.

The low frequencies that we feel with/through our bodies feel entirely different at a non-electric live concert as compared to what we feel through speakers. No headphones can reproduce such effects. For sure, there are speakers that can reproduce such sounds faithfully, but how often do the audio production guys use such speakers, and how often do they try to control for the feeling in their bodies? Not often, I imagine.

Re:Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio by Sebb767 on Monday May 17, 2021 @04:55PM (#27188340)
> but how often do the audio production guys use such speakers, and how often do they try to control for the feeling in their bodies? Not often, I imagine.

Yes, but we're talking about 5 digit and up audio equipment and listening to the top operas of the world, which definitely do have guys that know how to record. Your 10$ (or 250$) headphones combined with a CD from a smaller producer will not get you all the way there, I agree, but once you're in the insane high-price audiophile world, this becomes possible.