Posted by Dan on Dec 24, 2008 in
Lucky Hit Although modern headphones have been particularly widely sold and used for listening to stereo recordings since the release of the Walkman, there is subjective debate regarding the nature of their reproduction of stereo sound. Stereo recordings represent the position of horizontal depth cues (stereo separation) via volume differences of the sound in question between the two channels.
When the sounds from two speakers mix, they create the phase difference the brain uses to locate direction. Through most headphones, because the right and left channels do not combine in this manner, the illusion of the phantom centre can be perceived as lost.
Hard panned sounds will also only be heard only in one ear rather than from one side. This latter point is of particular import for earlier stereo recordings which were less sophisticated, sometimes playing vocals through one channel and music through the other.
Binaural recordings use a different microphone technique to encode direction directly as phase, with very little amplitude difference (except above 2 kHz) often using a dummy head, and can produce a surprisingly life-like spatial impression through headphones. Commercial recordings almost always use stereo recording, because historically loudspeaker listening has been more popular than headphone listening.
It is possible to change the spatial effects of stereo sound on headphones to better approximate the presentation of speaker reproduction by using frequency-dependent cross-feed between the channels, or–better still–a Blumlein shuffler (a custom EQ employed to augment the low-frequency content of the difference information in a stereo signal). While cross-feed can reduce the unpleasantness that some listeners find with hard panned stereo in headphones, the use of a dummy head during recording, with artificial pinnae, can allow on playback through headphones, the experience of hearing the performance as though situated in the positron of the dummy head.
Optimal sound is achieved when the dummy head matches the listener’s head, since pinnae vary greatly in size and shape.
Headsets can have an ergonomic benefits over traditional telephone handsets[citation needed]. They allow call center agents to maintain better posture instead of tilting their head sideways to cradle a handset[citation needed].
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Posted by Dan on Dec 24, 2008 in
Lucky Hit There are two basic groups of people who run internet businesses. Those who have a professional attitude and those who don’t.
You can’t generally tell which is which from the amount of money they earn, because many of them are just starting out in the area of internet technology and are making their way gradually towards the levels of income that will enable them to leave their normal jobs and earn from the internet full time.
But you can tell who they are from the level of service you get if you buy from them – especially if you end up having to request a refund for any reason.
Business Opportunities
Some people are wary of offering a money back guarantee. But when it comes to business opportunities it is the very first requirement of adopting a professional attitude. It is a vital part of building a bond of trust between you and your buyers, and if you don’t have it you will be sending out a negative vibe to your buyers and potential buyers.
Just think about this for a moment. If you buy something and want to return it, you will contact the seller. If the seller comes back to you and refuses to refund you, how likely are you to buy something from them in the future?
The chances are your answer is nil.
But what if their attitude was completely different? What if they refunded you without question, and let you know that if they could do anything further to help you could just let them know?
How impressed would you be with someone who expressed such a helpful and professional attitude?
The chances are you would be impressed enough to order from them again in the future – even though your first experience with them led to a refund. Do you see just how important a professional attitude can be to the development of your business?
It not only affects how your customers (and potential customers) see you, it also affects how your fellow affiliate marketers see you. This is extremely important if you are thinking about the prospect of joint ventures or other ways in which you can enter into agreements with other marketers to boost both your businesses.
A Proffessional Attitude
In the end, if your attitude is not as professional as it could be, you may make short term gains but the long term picture will not be as rosy. If on the other hand you are determined to present a professional attitude from the word go, you will experience better results overall. It might take longer in some cases, but when the ball really starts to roll you’ll have trouble stopping it!
And why would you want to?
We hear a lot about different affiliate schemes when we are surfing the web in search of information, and we hear a lot about how successful certain people are. But we rarely hear about their attitude to their business, and how professional (or not) certain people tend to be.
This doesn’t mean it is no less important than any other aspect of someone’s internet marketing business however. As we have seen, it is arguably the most important part of all.