On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:31:25PM -0500, Marc Lavallée wrote: > Binaural recordings should normally be heard with headphones, not with > loudspeakers. Cross-talk cancellation works with loudspeakers, with any > stereo recording.
What cross-talk (XTC) cancellation tries to do (by definition) is to deliver the L and R signals to their respective ears and not the the other one. Which is what headphones do. So binaural should work well with XTC. It does within some limits, and it's more or less the only recording method that does. You get some 'spatial' effect with almost any stereo recording, but if that corresponds to the actual positions of the sources is another matter. In most cases it's just an effect, and it has nothing to do with realistic reproduction. Regarding the 'single head' rule: XTC effectively removes the effect of the listener's head, by trying to deliver the L and R signals to their respective ears. The only 'head' effect that remains is some coloration depending on the secondary source (speaker) direction relative to the listener's head. And that, XTC gets completely wrong. Imagine a source at e.g. 45 degrees left. If the listener faces the XTC speakers he gets the coloration for a front source. If he turns his head left towards the apparent source, he gets the coloration for a 45 degrees *right* source (because that is where the speakers are in that case). Ciao, -- FA _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
