Monitoring the Immersive Mix: Speakers and Headphones

Nothing beats the experience of listening to an immersive mix on a properly tuned 7.1.4 or 9.1.6 monitor system, but statistics show that more than 90 percent of consumers will be listening through headphones, soundbars or two-channel playback. For the mix engineer, headphones have become much more than a tool to “check” an immersive mix or keep an ear on the binaural version, they’ve become an integral part of the production process.

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