CHAPTER 3
HEADPHONES AND HEARING AIDS
Headphones offer the possibility of the ultimate private listening experience. Their small transducers can reproduce extremely low-frequency tones when connected almost directly to the ear, and their small size contributes to good high-frequency response. The privacy (therefore, low acoustic leakage), extreme bandwidth, and dynamic range possible at the ear make the headphone a vital professional tool and a relatively low cost, super-fidelity personal listening system.
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