You're right, I was getting distracted into binaural recording territory by the fact that you were using a head. You were just using it for convenience for measuring headphones, I see that now. No, I don't think it has any impact whatsoever.
Earlier in the thread, I thought maybe his priorities were just of the type that resulted in him being extremely sensitive to digititis. But yeah, "thin"? I'm thinking there's an impedance mismatch somewhere, too.
But if he wants to prefer analog, who are we to judge? Moar iPods for the rest of us!
What about "records"? I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
But alas, it will not be.
Power will always be analog. Speakers will always be analog. Music, itself, will always be analog, even if it's an analogue of analog.
And One, Aggressor -- synthpop at its German (Viva le Deutschland!) finest -- the guy has a serious Alan Wilder fetish, and a really nice singing voice that doesn't have that typical Austrian accent -- just enough to be pleasing without being overwhelming.
Well, no the head portion of the binaural mic is modeled to have similar acoustic properties as the human head. Foam does not (well, not most of us, anyway ). Maybe Billy.
Hint: read more, post less. You know your way around the internet enough to find this place, don't ask people to handhold you through an internet forum.