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Typical stereo recordings are being made to listen by speakers. This means that a sound engineer makes the stereo mix to the adaptation of sound for listen of one channel by both ears. You will be tired during long time headphone listening more because superstereo effect than because of poor designed headphones.

What’s missing in headphones is the sound going from each channel to the opposite ear, arriving a short time later for the extra distance traveled, and with a bit of high frequency roll-off for the shadowing effect of the head. And the time delay to the far ear is somewhat longer at low frequencies than at high frequencies.

The Bauer stereophonic-to-binaural DSP (bs2b) is designed to improve headphone listening of stereo audio records.

This foobar2000 plugin will be appreciated especially by those who are used to listening to their headphones for very long periods, and will disable superstereo fatigue with no essential distortions.