Hi Augustine,

I have good experience with various Sennheiser cheap open-back headphones for 
binuaral
presentation - we use them a lot for audio-walks with many binaural effects. 
However each
model has a particular frequency response which I almost always correct for in 
my mix.

But for mixing and mastering usually use Beyer Dynamic DT-250’s. These are a 
closed type
and also not super- hi-fi but for me they represent the kind of NS-10 
experience you’re talking about. Also they are incredibly comfortable and handy 
for field recording, which is what I use them for mostly. Although these days 
they’re used more for online conference calls ;-)

best wishes, Justin

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> On 24 Jun 2020, at 11:35, sursound-requ...@music.vt.edu wrote:
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> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 22:16:17 +0100
> From: Augustine Leudar <augustineleu...@gmail.com>
> To: Surround Sound discussion group <sursound@music.vt.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Sursound] Suitable headphones for monitoring binaural
>       compositions
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> Hi Steve
> Tx for the reply. No the headphones are not equalised for my pinnae in fact
> not quite sure what you mean by that, iI am talking about using generic
> hrtfs. It is also possible to localise static objects. Something that close
> to the ear would probably fall firmly within what is called "the cone of
> confusion" but that's a location itself albeit blurry. Also important to
> remember I am asking about suitable headphones for monitoring not
> necessarily the best binaural experience. So the headphones that would
> translate best to whatever most people would listen on. In the studio that
> used to be ns10s but now is probably genelec. However the concept is the
> same, which headphones are best to produce binaural on yo successfully
> translate to the widest range of headphones, preferably without losing
> quality for those with hi end headphones. In the mastering world this is
> generally something like bowers and Wilkins speakers.
> 
> On Tuesday, 23 June 2020, Steven Boardman <boardroomout...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> If your headphones are equalised for your pinnae, then this is surely
>> negated?
>> As you aren't moving your headphones, then it shouldn't be a problem, as
>> they are on axis and your hrtf will remain static, (or non existent with
>> eq).
>> I can anecdotally confirm what Fons mentioned.
>> I have many different flavours of earbuds,  closed and open headphones, and
>> by far the best outer head binaural experience, is with my open back ones.
>> This is without custom eq for my ears, but with a generic flattening eq,
>> which really improves the effect.
>> I can imagine it would improve massively using  hrtf for my own ears,
>> convolved with eq to flatten the response of both my pinnae and
>> headphones..
>> 
>> Best
>> 
>> Steve



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