How to make your headphones sound better than ever

The Audiophiliac on the finer points of headphone listening.

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I know it might seem pretty straightforward -- put on headphones, play music - and that's all there is to it. Sure, that works, but with a decent set of headphones you can hear deep inside the music, if you do it right. Much more so than you ever will with a Bluetooth speaker, or even a very decent pair of speakers that interact with your room's acoustics, with headphones music is directly injected into your ears.

To make the most of the sound of your headphones let's start with the easy stuff. Do you have the headphone's left channel on your left ear, and the right one on your right ear? A lot of headphones don't make it so easy to distinguish between left and right channels, they might use tiny or nearly invisible "L" and "R" markings. Depending on the type of music you play, reversing left and right channels might not make much of a difference, but I always prefer to hear the stereo mix as the engineers intended. Take a moment to figure out a way to clearly identify the left and right channels on your headphone.

Which brings us to stereo: with headphones you're much more likely to hear the finer details of the stereo mix than you ever will from a single wireless speaker. Even with a pair of speakers, you only hear proper stereo when you're equidistant from both speakers. With headphones you're always in the sweet spot.
One more thing, with full-size on-ear or over-the-ear headphones experiment a bit with the placement of the ear cups relative to your ears -- move the cups a little higher or lower, and see how that changes the sound