I care more about timbre and tone color, ensuring it sounds right to me. The other psychoacoustic stuff is secondary to me. Spaciousness in headphones with stereo recordings is nothing at all like listening to a binaural recording. Same thing with stereo vs immersive audio mixes played back on the right equipment, it’s a categorically different experience. Yet most of the music we listen to is stereo recordings, and trying to create these spatial illusions in headphones requires a meaningful impact to the things that these days I care about more. When dealing with stereo content, I’d rather not make those concessions.
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