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 Justin Bennett jus...@justinbennett.nl www.justinbennett.nl http://jubilee-art.org/ new podcast series: http://soundscaper.com/the_constellation https://vimeo.com/justinbennett https://justinbennett.bandcamp.com/ > On 24 Jun 2020, at 11:35, sursound-requ...@music.vt.edu wrote: > > 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 > Message-ID: > <CABx2jurLoqP=z5sxuxvz0fa9dtuabkieo7c-tp-puq0w4j0...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > 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 _______________________________________________ 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.
