On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 16:46:33 +0530, umashankar manthravadi wrote: > One more question. How useful or effective is it to have headtracking > only on the horizontal axis ? will it help at all ? > > umashankar
The horizontal axis is the most important and the easiest. With a horizontal only decoder, the vertical cues are simply mapped to the horizon (and faded, I suppose). The result can be as good/bad as plain stereo on headphones, with the "in the head" sensation... It can be much better too, because it's nice to turn the head and hear the sound changing accordingly; impression of some realism is a legitimate quest. On Tue, 02 Feb 2016 08:37:16 +0100, David Pickett wrote: > 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. I partially agree. Listening to imperfect HRTF is not worst than listening with some other imperfect method; I mean, it could be enjoyable too... It depends on the context; some audiophiles prefer mono for good reasons. It's nice to listen to one instrument (piano or voice for example) from one mono source that echos in a room; it can be much better than sitting right in the middle of a speaker array that tries to mimic some other audio environment. Simplicity is valuable (even when avoidable), and that's why some people can enjoy bad music with bad ear buds in noisy environments. I guess I'm not helping much... -- Marc _______________________________________________ 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.
