At 07:42 02-02-16, umashankar manthravadi wrote: >For the moment, I would like video kept out of motion tracked audio on >headphones. I want this to be a system where I can sit in a rocking >chair and listen to music of many kinds on a good pair of headphones >and the headtracking is only to reinforce the audio image.
Although I use a pair of Sennheiser HD600 headphones almost every day for making and editing recordings, I cant get at all excited about having to wear headphones to listen to music for pleasure, and unlike mulitchannel loudspeaker surround, I personally regard the effort to perfect binaural sound on headphones as a waste of time and energy. This may be my loss; but it is my honest opinion, and others are entitled to disagree.
Most young people that I see in the city where I live seem to have earbuds permanently in their ears; they are presumably listening to normal stereo recordings made for loudspeakers and seem to be quite happy with that format and MP3 quality. I fear it might be rather disorienting for such people to be listening to recordings that give them cues that contradict those they would get from the environment where they are actually standing or walking. Unlike Umashankar at home in his rocking chair, this is at least rather dichotomous, or whatever the word is.
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