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Mike Bowles
From:
Princeton, West Virginia, USA
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Posted 6 Mar 2007 4:59 pm |
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| some of you more experienced steelers tell me why my steel sounds so much better when i run a cd player and my steel through my 112 and use headphones than it does without the phones I play a mullen rp sd10 nv112 nv1000 goodrich vp my hearing is not great I worked in the coal mines around a lot of heavy equiptment thanks |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 7 Mar 2007 9:11 am
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| I could go into a long discourse on reflective and refractive acoustic pressure waves and such, but suffice it to say that when you're using headphones, you're hearing everything that's being reproduced (because your ear is so close to the sound source). When you use a speaker...well, the sound just does a lot more traveling and dispersing, and you're also hearing all kinds of reflections and outside noise, too. |
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Michael Haselman
From:
St. Paul
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Posted 7 Mar 2007 10:16 am
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Keep in mind that high frequencies are directional. If you have your amp on the floor, not leaning up at your ear, you will not be hearing some of the high end. I learned this the hard way years ago when people, sound techs, etc. told me my sound was too trebly. I wasn't hearing it until someone else played my gear.
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Mullen RP D10, Peavey NV112, Hilton volume. Hound Dog reso. Piles of other stuff. |
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Mike Wheeler
From:
Delaware, Ohio, USA
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Posted 7 Mar 2007 10:17 am
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Another big factor is that your headphones reproduce a more high-fidelity frequency response than the 112's speaker can. Playing a CD thru the amp's speaker will sound very different that it will listening to it thru the amp's headphone jack.
That's just the nature of the beast...no fault of the system.
I prefer playing CDs thru a separate stereo amp, and then just play along...although quietly sometimes. 
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Best regards,
Mike |
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Keith Cordell
From:
San Diego
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Posted 7 Mar 2007 9:18 pm
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| As someone with a recently diagnosed hearing loss, I can tell you to BURN YOUR HEADPHONES. there is plenty of evidence that headphones cause irreversible hearing loss; check Pete Townsends website out. |
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Mike Bowles
From:
Princeton, West Virginia, USA
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Posted 8 Mar 2007 7:50 am sound
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| thanks guys for your answers |
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