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Surround Sound Headphones - The Perfect Device To Get True Theater-Like Experience
Surround sound headphones is different the way you enjoy music nowadays. Before 1970s', the caliber of audio was monophonic employing only one or perhaps a handful of speakers. Cinemas were the only means where one could watch a film and enjoy the music. Those days, the audio system in the theaters was monophonic using a large speaker situated behind the screen. Those born in the 60s won't be able to perceive the difference between the quality of audio in those days which of now. This is because cinemas today too are utilizing more realistic surround audio technology. The same technologies have now been built-into headphones.
Surround sound headphones has personalized the real theater-like audio experience with better, clearer, realistic, sharper audio output. The reason behind this is actually the use of a technology that may reproduce 3D audio theater faithfully. The machine channels different frequencies of audio output through different speakers arranged around you. The speaker are arranged in such a way that after different frequency sound waves are emitted from different speakers it seems that you are hearing the same musics coming from different directions. In a nutshell you're wrapped around within an audio blanket.
When you use ordinary headphones, you will hear sound coming from one direction only. This does not permit you to benefit from the finer aspects of the quality of natural sound; however when you use surround sound headset you are able to clearly distinguish the various subtle qualities from the sound. This is because of the fact that ordinary headphones produce sound in one direction while multichannel audio headset has the ability to distribute the sound like the speakers in a theater setting.
On the other hand it is possible that you should hear multichannel audio with the aid of a regular headphone, but in this example you will require to hook it up a person that uses digital sound processing system to reproduce sound. Here the hardware from the player processes the sound and not the headphone, whereas in case of surround sound headset it is the headset that creates the 3D sound regardless of the type of player. Nevertheless, if you are using surround sound headset in conjunction with a DSP player, you will have a heightened state of audio experience.
The 3D sound effect is based on the principles of psycho-acoustics the branch of science staring at the psychological and physiological responses associated with sound. Manufacturers of multichannel audio headset have used the findings of such research to create their headsets. This has led to sound reproduction from the original recorded sound, in which you can differentiate the different frequencies separately.
In theaters the 3D sound effect is produced through several speakers however the surround sound headset only has two earpieces, so how 3D effect is produced? In these headsets psycho-acoustics principles and modes have been used to change the frequencies of the sound in a way that it seems the sound is originating from different directions producing a surround effect.
Using the introduction of surround headsets, enjoying 3D sound has become quite personalized aside from getting used commercially in theaters and home theaters only. It has changed the way people perceive music these days in the days when sound reproduction was monophonic.
