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Noise Cancellation Headphones
Yes, you will get noise cancellation even if you're not playing music. Don't take my word for it - any search engine should give you hits like this and this. There are some that will cancel noise even ...
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Can differences between high quality audio formats be noticed on low quality headphones?
The short answer is "No".
The long answer is:
I did a study in university to find out if people can, as some people say, notice the difference between different audio codecs and different bit-rates of ...
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What are the limits of the 3.5mm jack?
There could be a limit on the amount of power that can be transmitted because of the common-ground/return circuit topology forced by the standard TRS pinout. It is much easier to get higher power from ...
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Headphones - Is constantly wearing them bad? (not music)
If you keep under the safety limits in your listening levels and time exposed and take breaks from listening (I've heard 15 minutes break per 45 minutes of listening), then I think you should be safe.
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Headphones - Is constantly wearing them bad? (not music)
There's no inherent risk in prolonged use of headphones provided the volume is kept at reasonable levels (at least according to my otorhinolaryngologist).
Aural isolation is not a problem, on the ...
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5.1 surround headphones for mixing?
Working on headphones for a 5.1 mix is not a good idea. Nevertheless, what you might be looking for is a 5.1 to binaural renderer. An example of such a product can be found here : http://smyth-...
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Headphones: high versus low impedance?
There are some characteristics for low and high impedance headphones - but these are not to be taken as universal truths (you'll find excellent sounding low impedance headphones and horrible sounding ...
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Do I need a studio Headphones from beginning?
Built-in laptop speakers are largely useless. A cheap headphone already has a much better chance at reproducing lower frequencies. Its stereo representation is rather different from that of a pair ...
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Convert speaker stereo mix to headphone
You could have a look into processing the recordings with the help of a binaural panning tool such as the one included in Logic. You would import the two channels of your audio files as two seperate ...
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PA Mixer monitor - mono to stereo headphones
It's a mono output jack, so needs a mono jack, or preferably TRS with bridge, if you're going to a stereo headphone amp.
A regular TRS > TRS will arrive at the headphone amp as one side of a 'stereo' ...
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Headphones splitter for audiointerface's line out
It is an amplified headphone distributor. Sweetwater.com has many. There is a cheap one for $30 but most are a $200-300 and up. If you get an inexpensive one, make sure it’s powered - otherwise it can ...
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Headphones: Can you use bass boosted headphones as professional sound editing headphones after making some changes in software or hardware changes?
Unless you have specific measuring tools for headphones, you'd have to do it by ear - see this for a quick rundown of how you can do it on Mac - How to do speaker correction on a MacBook Pro Retina
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What happens when the output impedance of a headphone amp is higher than the input impedance of the headphones?
First a short historical notice.
In the old days, professional headphones often where 600 Ohm, sometimes 250 Ohm. The IEC standard from 1996 recommended an output impedance of 120 Ohms for the ...
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Tuning a house of worship by referencing through headphones
First things first, use your crossover. You should connect your main outputs to it and feed your main loudspeakers and your subwoofers power amps from it. Connecting and learning how to configure your ...
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High impedance headphone for MacBook without an amp?
I have my Beyerdynamic DT 990 Pro 250 Ohm connected directly to my MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) as I am typing this and they sound great and get plenty loud, anything above 75% volume is actually too ...
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Noise Cancellation Headphones
I would say that it does depend on the brand, and the hardware used.
I can tell you that Bose QC15s and QC3s actively cancelled out background hum and noise when activated even when there was no ...
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Headphones don't work in cubase 8
According to the Steinberg UR22 operation manual, you need to setup the device in Cubase:
When the “ASIO Driver Setup” window appears while the Cubase series
program is launching, confirm that ...
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Headset amplifier (headphone amplifier with mic preamp)
why don't you just plug it into the mic-input on the motherboard?
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Panning/stereo problem with Denon AH-MM200BK headphones
This very much sounds like the plugs are incompatible. Compare the looks of the two headphone jacks (those you actually plug in in case you use some kind of adapter), in particular the number of ...
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Idle noise on audio-interface when listening trough headphones
Turning the monitor control all the way should give you only the playback source in the output.
The monitor control is there to set the amount of direct input to playback when you're tracking live ...
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What's the difference between 3 pin, 4 pin, and 5 pin XLR intercom headsets?
3-pin is usually for balanced mono lines - a single balanced mic, etc.
4-pin can carry a mono signal to a headset & a mono unbalanced mic return.
5-pin can carry stereo to a headset & a mono ...
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How to properly equalize headphones?
I usually use pink noise and adjust band per band, counter-equalizing the device I'm calibrating for.
I listen to the noise while moving each band up and down, untill I feel like it's balanced.
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Are there any high quality professional 1/4” jack headphones?
These days, those are going to be rare because so many sources have 3.5mm sockets. If you insist on having a 1/4" connector instead of an adapter, cut off the existing connector and solder in a 1/4" ...
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Creating single channel sound (left or right) with no audio bleed into the other channel
This is called crosstalk: the signal on the left channel leaks into the right channel. When you have 2 audio circuits (left and right) close together without being shielded, the electromagnetic fields ...
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Why does using an extension cable on my headset with a TRRS jack cause the stereo signal to leak into the microphone signal?
Here's some background information that might be useful to understand what's going on.
The bare physics answer to “why is this happening” is: two wires running close together form an unintended ...
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Can I drive additional headphones from a Monitor Out of my audiointerface without damaging them?
Your headphones should be safe plugged into the monitor sockets but you're unlikely to hear much. The monitor sockets are intended to feed an amplifier or amplified speakers with a medium input ...
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How to know if studio monitors are loud enough?
Your first priority here should be your own hearing. Check the actual sound levels in the room.
Listening to anything over 75dB for prolonged periods (as we doo with music and sound design) WILL cause ...
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Panning/stereo problem with Denon AH-MM200BK headphones
To extend user20438's answer:
The Denons do one thing that is odd - that is when the sound is panned fully to the right, I hear what I would expect. However, when panned fully to the left, the ...
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Headphone Impedance Issue, L/R channels cancel each other out
Your ground connection is missing from the headphones. Check the continuity from each ear-piece to the ground connection which is the Sleeve on your 3-pin stereo plug. You should be able to do this ...
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