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Hi everyone!
I'm having a little problem with my DP - Casio PX - 130. I've purchased new headphones recently (Sennheiser HD 515 - quite cool ones for the price btw ) and I now practise mostly with them.
But I want to turn off the ''thing'' that makes the high notes sound more in the right headphone, and low notes in the left one. When playing through speakers, it makes a nice feeling of real piano. But with headphones on, my right ear just hurts... The high-pitched notes are like needles in my head.
Can this be turned off somehow? Now I have a choice to put my headphones on inversed once in a while, or have a pain in my right ear after 10 minutes...
Thanks very much

I don't think it can be eliminated. s
It recreates the fact that sitting to a real piano you ear the high from the right and the basses from the left.

Have you simply tried to decrease the volume of your piano?

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You could perhaps use some stereo-->mono audio hardware to combine the left and right channels, however I doubt the resulting sound would be terribly good.

Cheers,
James
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Thanks for replies guys
I tried decreasing the volume, doesn't help unless it's too low. It's just the notes about c2 and higher... I used to play with some cheap headphones - the muddy sound was OK. Now it's nice, clear, and ... too sharp! Guess I just have to get used to it

Hrochan, I suspect your problem may not be the sensitivity of your ears but rather your choice of the Sennheiser headphones, high quality though they undoubtedly are. Choice of headphones is very subjective. Different phones work for different people, or even the same people at different times. So your phones' high end may be clashing with that of your ears.

I have two phonesets at present. My AKG 240s are often very satisfying -- mellow, subdued, with a distant perspective, great for listening to old Edwin Fischer records. My Grado SR-80s are the truest I've ever experienced, and are open-back (meaning people near you can actually hear them, making them inappropriate for an office but fine for a music room). Closed-back phones are too clinical and artificial for me. But that's just me.