There’s just something fun, or, huh, less weird, about hearing music coming from “in front of you” rather than, “the singer singing right in the middle of your brain” with headphones.
Obviously, headphones don’t have to have angled drivers to have a decent soundstage and, make you feel like the stage is in front of you or around you. And yes I also have speakers lol. But I’m curious.
Maybe it’s not common because it’s simply a bad idea too.
I mean, if you get angled pads this is almost the same effect so it could be added to most headphones lol (not exactly the same but typically does yield similar results, but of course it depends on the headphones)
Super late, but just adding 2 that I own that both have angled drivers. And yes, I prefer them over the standard parallel configuration such as the Sundara and HD600 which I also own. The imaging is pretty impressive on headphones with angled drivers.