Best Product Review and a warning to all musicians:-)

[pmczar]

This is from a product review on Musician's Friend. Who knew that wearing your headphones incorrectly can cause depression? Still laughing...

"Comments about Shure SE112 Earphone:

I was quite depressed the first time when putting on this headphone. It is my first pair of Shure Headphones too. I was an amateur musician some years ago and later very addictive to hi-fi . For some years I spent over 80% of income in hi-fi; will you believe I can eat breads only mostly for more than 3 years?
For the past decade I spent only less than 10% of income in musical expenditures and Shure SE 112 seems quite expensive for me.
I was so depressed when I first put on this headphone because the music quality was completely unacceptable even compared with my old headphone at less than half the price of Shure SE112. This made me very upsetted and I have considered to buy another brand. I was so stupid to try to put the "L" headphone to my right ear and vice versa and you won't believe the difference is so big that has completely change my understandings of headphones. The tonal balance and the richness have exceeded my expectations with the cost."

[thecontrolcentre]

for sure he's a hifi buff (oon) ...

[cryophonik]

Putting headphones on the wrong ears causes phase inversion, aliasing, vignetting, erectile dysfunction, and hemorrhoids. I thought everybody knew that.

[AsPeeXXXVIII]

Putting headphones on the wrong ears causes phase inversion, aliasing, vignetting, erectile dysfunction, and hemorrhoids. I thought everybody knew that.

I'm afraid you gave me an idea, and I'm not sure if it's a good or bad one.

[fluffy_little_something]

On a serious note, I don't know what the L and R markers are good for on headphones that are totally symmetrical, anyway...

[Googly Smythe]

On a serious note, I don't know what the L and R markers are good for on headphones that are totally symmetrical, anyway...

It makes sense if you pan something left and you hear it on the left... Or right as the case may be.

[jancivil]

On a serious note, I don't know what the L and R markers are good for on headphones that are totally symmetrical, anyway...

OMFG

[fluffy_little_something]

On a serious note, I don't know what the L and R markers are good for on headphones that are totally symmetrical, anyway...

It makes sense if you pan something left and you hear it on the left... Or right as the case may be.

Well, there is no label on the sound which says "I belong on the right side" The listener doesn't know whether the producer wanted a sound to be on the left or right side. It's not like with writing in the wrong direction

[fmr]

On a serious note, I don't know what the L and R markers are good for on headphones that are totally symmetrical, anyway...

It makes sense if you pan something left and you hear it on the left... Or right as the case may be.

Well, there is no label on the sound which says "I belong on the right side" The listener doesn't know whether the producer wanted a sound to be on the left or right side. It's not like with writing in the wrong direction

Believe it or not, I recognized that monitors were plugged in the wrong channel more than once, because of the way the music sounded to me. And in certain pieces, right and left have definitive places. For exemple, if you are listening to a symphonic orchestra, you will expect that the violins are sounding on the left, and the basses on the right, not the opposite. Basically every instrument has a defined place in the orchestra, and therefore in the stereo field.

[Lejurai]

On a serious note, I don't know what the L and R markers are good for on headphones that are totally symmetrical, anyway...

If you put them in your head the "wrong way" (left cup to right ear and right to left), you'll hear everything reversed. That's how I found out that britney spears sings about satan.

[deastman]

On a serious note, I don't know what the L and R markers are good for on headphones that are totally symmetrical, anyway...

If you put them in your head the "wrong way" (left cup to right ear and right to left), you'll hear everything reversed. That's how I found out that britney spears sings about satan.

Incorrect. If you put them on the wrong ears, the entire universe will turn inside out. Folks, please don't try this at home! We're still recovering from the last time.

[fluffy_little_something]

On a serious note, I don't know what the L and R markers are good for on headphones that are totally symmetrical, anyway...

It makes sense if you pan something left and you hear it on the left... Or right as the case may be.

Well, there is no label on the sound which says "I belong on the right side" The listener doesn't know whether the producer wanted a sound to be on the left or right side. It's not like with writing in the wrong direction

Believe it or not, I recognized that monitors were plugged in the wrong channel more than once, because of the way the music sounded to me. And in certain pieces, right and left have definitive places. For exemple, if you are listening to a symphonic orchestra, you will expect that the violins are sounding on the left, and the basses on the right, not the opposite. Basically every instrument has a defined place in the orchestra, and therefore in the stereo field.

If you say so... But I doubt there are such conventions in genres such as Pop, R&B, Jazz etc.

[sprnva]

This is why I listen to everything in mono.

[fluffy_little_something]

Indeed, not everyone has two ears to begin with...

[Nocturnal909]

A diet of bread for three years? I guess that best be out of Ramen noodles!