Why does it feel like the sound is coming from inside your head when you wear a good pair of headphones/earphones?

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Sound staging is going to be different across all headphones. Some are designed with open backs to simulate the sound filling a room, while others plug your ears and generate the sound directly in your ear canal.

That feeling of it being inside of your head just means that the plugs are effectively blocking out a lot of external sound while providing a narrow sound stage. Your ears and brain do the rest of the work to transmit and interpret the sound, resulting in it feeling like it’s in your head (since it basically is, with the plugs and all)

ETA: for maximum “in your brain” feeling, you’ll want earphones with no LR split so both sides produce the same sound

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