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Yeah sorry, that was unnecessarily snarky. I find the whole audiophile woo thing a bit ridiculous but there’s no doubting people do perceive something different, even if it’s environment/mood/ear freshness rather than measurable with a microphone. The reason I mentioned volume is because a slight volume boost (3db or less) often sounds ‘better’ but isn’t always detectable as louder to the ear. Another ‘issue’ with better equipment is that as the audio cues to louder volume (ie distortion) aren’t there, without any sudden contrast, volumes can creep up and up until you suddenly realise you’re shouting over the track!
Interesting about the L/R separation, assuming what you’re now hearing is correct it sounds like something in the original path was broken. Hard panning is a valid technique for less naturalistic recording/mixing but you’d normally have some reverb or cross delay very low in the mix to tie it all together.
I think there are also plugins to simulate bleed between speakers (when mixing on headphones) but I’d be surprised if that’s baked into whatever you’re listening from... Unless you have some kind of environment DSP running?
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@Dramatic_Hammer stereo separation is definitely the biggest difference. Eg if a guitar is meant to come through the left channel, it might sometimes bleed into the right with my old cable. Now, no such thing happens. If it is supposed to come through the left, there's no bleed at all. It just comes outta the left. I sometimes only use one earpiece at work, I'm now missing entire instruments/vocals when doing so.