Re: [Sursound] [Warning! advertisement] Hefio earphones

2016-04-08 Thread Politis Archontis
I guess that’s their target application, you start with a physical flat response, and then the user can apply a personalized target response that he wants. That can be perceptual equalization, stereo widening filters, hrtfs, etc. I think they offer some equalizatio or flitering tools for that. T

Re: [Sursound] [Warning! advertisement] Hefio earphones

2016-04-07 Thread Steven Boardman
I kind of guessed that after posting, but the marketing l read appeared just to push only the flat response. Which i suppose to most people sounds like a great idea on its own. The thing is, without a personalised HRTF, they are likely to sound worse to most people. Well at least the frequency re

Re: [Sursound] [Warning! advertisement] Hefio earphones

2016-04-07 Thread Politis Archontis
Hi Steve, I guess the idea is that if you equalize the response of the headphones/earphones, then you can apply the target response you need without undesired modifications by the headphones, and that can be individualized HRTFs if you have them, which include the effects you mentioned. Regard

Re: [Sursound] [Warning! advertisement] Hefio earphones

2016-04-07 Thread Steven Boardman
Not sure one needs actual flat response at the ear drum. Surely it needs to sound like the torso, head, pinna and ear canal have filtered the sound before we think its flat? Best Steve Hi, this is an advertisement pretty much, but I thought it could be interesting to people of the list. An ex

[Sursound] [Warning! advertisement] Hefio earphones

2016-04-07 Thread Politis Archontis
Hi, this is an advertisement pretty much, but I thought it could be interesting to people of the list. An ex-colleague of mine here at Aalto university made the brave decision to start his own company couple of years ago, applying the research he was doing, and these days they announced their