Friday, August 10, 2012

How to Listen to Music Critically!

This is a good blog on how to listen to music critically using your headphones and amps and dacs.

With all the reviews by headphones and IEM gurus about what they spot in the sound signature and details of the music thru' their headgears and accessories, wouldn't you want to be able to identity what the gurus picked up. This is important training for your ears as it helps to open them up to a whole new dimensions and make your EXPENSIVE headphones worth its price.



For untrained ears, we actually do not need anything above $200 because we will not notice a big difference between a $100 and >$200 headphones nowadays. It is simply because we do not know what to details to catch or spot.

So, just try this simple app and then try your sub$100 headphone and <$200 headphone and be marvelled at your EARS kung-fu!



How to Listen is a desktop software application developed by the Harman International R&D group for the purpose of training and selecting listeners used in audio product research, development, and testing. The software consists of a number of training exercises where different kinds of timbral, spatial and dynamic distortions commonly found within the recording and audio chains are simulated and added to music.
The listener’s task is to identify, classify or rate these distortions according to a number of well-defined perceptual attributes and scales. The software automatically adjusts the difficulty of each training task based on the listener’s performance. 
We are happy to offer a free beta version of this software to audio enthusiasts in the hope that they will use it to improve their critical listening skills and appreciation for high quality sound reproduction. Enjoy!


http://harmanhowtolisten.blogspot.sg/

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