Re: [Sursound] NOT The Barber of Seville

2013-02-02 Thread Stefan Schreiber
Dave Malham wrote: Hi On 1 February 2013 22:35, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Most systems that try to deliver sound directly to the ears (this includes binaural, crosstalk cancellation etc.) ignore the fact that normally a listener is not clamped into a vise. Even binaural with head tracking on

Re: [Sursound] NOT The Barber of Seville

2013-02-02 Thread Augustine Leudar
I knew sibilant vowel sounds can be perceived by our skin and I was recently reading about dental hearing aids - I would love to hear of any more. > > The other thing that is widely ignored is that our ears are not the > only way we perceive sound - I'm sure (well, at least I hope) Eric > will

Re: [Sursound] NOT The Barber of Seville

2013-02-02 Thread Gerard Lardner
And, indeed, the virtuoso percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, who is profoundly deaf, reputedly 'hears' through her feet. Given how delicately she can play (she performs barefoot), she must have exceptional sensitivity in her feet. She claims to have trained herself to hear with other parts of h

Re: [Sursound] NOT The Barber of Seville

2013-02-01 Thread Dave Malham
Hi On 1 February 2013 22:35, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > Most systems that try to deliver sound directly to the ears > (this includes binaural, crosstalk cancellation etc.) ignore > the fact that normally a listener is not clamped into a vise. > Even binaural with head tracking only considers rot

Re: [Sursound] NOT The Barber of Seville

2013-02-01 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 10:16:37AM -0800, Eric Carmichel wrote: > For me, sound in space from a surround of loudspeakers rules. Couldn't agree more. For anything that works, the sound has to physically come from more or less the direction it is intended to be perceived. Which is something HOA d

[Sursound] NOT The Barber of Seville

2013-02-01 Thread Eric Carmichel
Howdy All (Authentic Western Greeting): I have to add my two bits on "How not to advertise binaural." I've heard the barbershop demo as well as a plethora of the more ubiquitous helicopter demos. My delicate and politically correct way of putting it is this: They all suck, and in more ways than