It has limited dealerships, so I have not yet had a chance to listen, but I still might someday. It is around $4,000 including a pair of mid-level Stax cans. My understanding is that many pros use it for mastering film soundtracks without having to tie up the expensive mastering room. It purportedly eliminates the inside your head sound, creating the illusion you are listening to speakers in the room you calibrated for, even if you are somewhere else. That is amazing technology using DSP that calibrates your head transfer function and a specific room/system, permitting 8 channel playback from commercial stereo or Mch recordings via the normal 2-channel phones. The only headphone system that would remotely be of interest to me today is the Smyth Realizer 8 system. I assume there are binaural synthesis circuits today that can help minimize the issue, but I have no interest in going there vs. Binaural recordings might have mitigated that, if they were widely available, which they still are not. But, over time, as the novelty wore off, I found the "inside your head" image to be tiresome and fatiguing when using ordinary commercial stereo recordings mixed for use with speakers. My only speaker was mono, so headphones were the only way I could listen in stereo. In some ways it is a bit baffling because the music would require releasing in a different format and that has usually been seen as an opportunity to print money by the music industry.Īges ago in my teens, my first true stereo was with Koss headphones. Unfortunately the music industry has consistently demonstrated zero interest in high fidelity in any real sense and the demand from consumers does not seem to be there either. It has been possible to produce reasonably priced commercial binaural systems since the late 70s when integrated circuits got sorted out. You can sit in a chair and move your head with a head tracking system which have been available for quite a few years. But I would agree that hearing a working binaural system is likely to change a person's view of stereo. What you get from recording using a dummy head can work for some individuals in terms of locking onto where sound is coming from but the tonal balance can still be off and will inevitably be so at low frequencies using headphones. By the way, you may prefer this sound, but that is because it is what your ear/brain is used to, go back and listen to binaural stuff for a while then come back to this, you will get what I am talking about.Ĭlick to expand.In order to work binaural needs the correct transfer function for the individual's ear, head and upper torso which the brain has learnt to use and the correct transfer function for the headphones in the position they are seated on the individuals head. If one does not understand this, one does not understand Stereo at all.Īllright then, here is some nice "stereo" to listen to, while it sounds good to us, note the loss of space and width and height and also how the stereo effect uses the same signal in both ears, but volume different, and reverb, to try to make it sound more interesting, but it in no way competes with binaural, it just can't. (1) and (2) are CRITICAL points to understand. (2) Stereo recording has no equivalent listening experience in the real world, its all made up and requires brain processing power. ( 1) Binaural recording has an equivalent listening experience in the real world, that is you sitting in a chair, without your head moving, and listening. Listen to the video in the top right corner, girl with guitar, its a great video too (sorry it will not imbed but worth clicking on)
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