Hi David, I agree completely with what you say apart from a single point: This dichotomy is the exact reason why, in my opinion, proper binaural rendering is crucial. And I don’t think music is the issue here anyway (actually most of the people I know listening to music with loudspeakers at their places, are perfectly happy with a mono playback, or preference to a “diffuse” room sound, since they will rarely sit down to listen to music specifically). The issue is that all these emerging VR and AR technologies, independently of if they will be successful or not, should be designed from the bottom-up to deliver consistent and natural cues, especially if you are mixing reality with the virtual. Otherwise, you end up with a mess of audiovisual conflicting cues, which may be exhausting and disorientating.
About music listening however, there is a chance that with headphones you can teach all these young people some proper listening habits! since if the processor binauralizes and externalizes correctly the stereo or multichannel recording, then they won’t be able to escape the sweet spot :-). Regards, Archontis > On 02 Feb 2016, at 09:37, David Pickett <d...@fugato.com> wrote: > > 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. > > David > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit > account or options, view archives and so on. _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
