Article: Sound Check: Head of the class: Young Galaxy joins ranks of bands delivering ecstasy via headphones.

Byline: Jeff Miers

May 11--Yes, it's more than common to see listeners experiencing their music on headphones these days, the iPod frenzy being what it is. But how much of the music they're listening to was designed with that spatial stereo relationship in mind?

It's one thing to hear an ultramodern, mega-compressed and digitally fine-tuned recording blasting straight into your inner ear while you hit the treadmill in the gym, quite another to experience (in solitude) the wide-open vistas of music designed with headphones in mind.

The former sounds pretty much the same however you approach it, and whatever setting -- MP3 player, home stereo, ...

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