Thanks . I ' ve got to try those . <| sep |> What in the fuck . you ' re a mixing engineer and you think soundstage is a bullshit audiophile term and suggest that it ' s based on the distanceangle of the drivers before mentioning the actual enclosure and whether they ' re open or closed ? I ' m struggling to wrap my head around your existence . EDIT OP , the soundstage of a pair of headphones is basically the illusory space from which sounds seem to be able to come from . On some headphones it will seem that all of the sounds come from a space about the size of your own skull , they ' re close , they ' re inside of your head , with other headphones sounds might seem capable of coming from across the room or even much further . It ' s different for every pair and it ' s also different person to person though probably less so because the way you hear is different person to person . Panning works with every pair of stereo headphones , soundstage is the way you experience that panning . Don ' t worry too much about it though , it really comes down to preference . Typically , if you want that inside your head kind of experience you ' re looking for closed headphones , if you ' re looking for a more realistic in my opinion in the room with the band kind of experience , you ' re probably looking for open headphones .