Why do headphones have left and right on them?

[Anny Road]

Just to spite the cunts that make them I put them on the wrong way around.

WTF is that all about.

Someone will come on here and give some bullshit answer about frequency and ohms or some other crap. It bollocks.

[Fugitive]

All two-channel or stereo recordings have a left, L, and right, R, audio channel. These channels do not contain the same audio information.

 

Most studio recordings are really multi-channel mono recordings, in which the producer 'places' the audio signal from each channel somewhere between hard left and hard right using the pan control on the mixing console. Each instrument or voice is recorded very close to the source, eliminating any room effects. The relative content, left vs. right, is a production decision, so listening with the left earphone in your left ear and the right in your right reproduces the environment the producer was trying to create.

 

In real stereophonic recordings, at least two microphones, usually oriented towards the left and right sides of the hall, are used to record a musical performance from the listener's perspective. The audio information that is recorded includes the musical source material, as well as any room reflections and any other out of phase sounds. When this is played back in the proper orientation - left channel to the listener's left and right to the right - the performance can be reproduced with many, if not most, of the directional cues intact. Playing with the channels reversed can ruin the acoustic image.

[Jim MM]

Try watching a film with them.

[Adebisi]

Or listening to some Rush..

 

[YOUTUBE]5Tq-UsaRchI[/YOUTUBE]

[Tyler Durden]

Just to spite the cunts that make them I put them on the wrong way around.WTF is that all about.

Someone will come on here and give some bullshit answer about frequency and ohms or some other crap. It bollocks.

 

Be careful there are eyes and ears everywhere, you'll be dragged away and locked up. Crazy bastard

[liverpoolsno9]

Just to spite the cunts that make them I put them on the wrong way around.

 

WTF is that all about.

Someone will come on here and give some bullshit answer about frequency and ohms or some other crap. It bollocks.

 

didn't sound the same did it? Go on admit it.

[Anny Road]

didn't sound the same did it? Go on admit it.

 

I listened to Britney and Whale sex music and could find no difference. You are talking shite.

[Jim MM]

That's because there is no difference between Britney and whale sex.

[The Dude Abides]

There are plenty headphone-sets that don't fit properly if you put the left in right and vice versa.

[Captain Turdseye]

I can't put the left earphone in my right ear. Its just wrong.

[Uncle_Meat]

It's so you know which way around your head is.

[Stu Monty]

So that Bloc Party can play around with them.

 

vdkmhquF60o

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

It's just, to borrow a phrase from philosopher Piper, because they want to.

[TheBitch]

Putting them in the wrong ears is akin to opening crisps upside down.

 

Mentalist.

[Welsh]

Headphones with one long piece and one short get on my tits, what a joke.

[Trumo]

Headphones with one long piece and one short get on my tits, what a joke.

 

You're wearing them wrong mate.

[Chinandeler Bong]

See Fugitives post.

[Alan Sex]

I like to put one earbud up my ass and the other down my throat so my belly plays in stereo.

[Indian Red]

Ear phones never fit in my ears. They always fall out. Apparently cock is not the only organ that I have a smaller than normal version of.

[Fugitive]

It's also importsnt to use them in the correct ear when listening to Binaural recordings.

[Indian Red]

It's also importsnt to use them in the correct ear when listening to Binaural recordings.

 

Is that a sex sound or position?

[Juniper]

Every time I view this thread the picture in my head of Anny purposely putting in his headphones the wrong way round as a show of defiance still makes me chuckle.

 

Keep on fighting the good fight.

[Mike D]

All two-channel or stereo recordings have a left, L, and right, R, audio channel. These channels do not contain the same audio information.

 

Most studio recordings are really multi-channel mono recordings, in which the producer 'places' the audio signal from each channel somewhere between hard left and hard right using the pan control on the mixing console. Each instrument or voice is recorded very close to the source, eliminating any room effects. The relative content, left vs. right, is a production decision, so listening with the left earphone in your left ear and the right in your right reproduces the environment the producer was trying to create.

 

In real stereophonic recordings, at least two microphones, usually oriented towards the left and right sides of the hall, are used to record a musical performance from the listener's perspective. The audio information that is recorded includes the musical source material, as well as any room reflections and any other out of phase sounds. When this is played back in the proper orientation - left channel to the listener's left and right to the right - the performance can be reproduced with many, if not most, of the directional cues intact. Playing with the channels reversed can ruin the acoustic image.

 

;)

 

[YOUTUBE]IRsPheErBj8&playnext=1&list=PLDE86DA9E5CB28F0E[/YOUTUBE]

[Acid]

I watched a documentary on the Beatles a while back and someone said they recorded quite a lot of their songs with the vocals on one side, and all the instruments on the other. I don't remember the reason behind it though.

 

It annoys me though when I am in class and I can only have one headphone in because the tutor is talking, and I can only hear half the song. Rage against the machine have a few tracks like this with the vocals and instruments split.

[Johnni]

Because it's bad luck if you don't.