Unfortunately it won’t sound as good to anyone else. Ciao,
Dave Hunt > 1. Re: ASA Academy short course on Fundamentals of Binaural > Hearing? Survey (lenmoskow...@optonline.net) > > From: lenmoskow...@optonline.net > Subject: Re: [Sursound] ASA Academy short course on Fundamentals of Binaural > Hearing? Survey > Date: 21 April 2023 at 21:18:58 BST > To: "List, Sursound" <sursound@music.vt.edu> > > > Douglas wrote: > >> In early experiences with binaural without head tracking I found the effects >> lacking in the very thing it was supposed to be delivering: more accurate >> localization than with volume based panning. More recently, after many hours >> of attentive listening, I have found the effect more convincing. >> >> So my question is, is the effective localization of binaural sound a learned >> skill? And if so, can the skill be taught? > > As a 30+ year manufacturer of binaural microphones, perhaps I can answer. > > If you recorded binaurally using a first-rate set of miniature microphones > mounted on/in your own ears with your own ears (and hence your own personal > HRTF), you'd find the recordings to be extremely spatially realistic. The > only deficit would be that sound sources directly on the front/rear axis > (plus or minus roughly five or ten degrees) wouldn't be easy to locate > correctly as front or rear. > > If you added headtracking to the personal HRTF and calibrated/corrected > headphones, you'd have an extremely realistic and spatially precise binaural > recording. > > That's what you get with recordings made with excellent higher-order > ambisonic recordings, decoded to binaural with a personal HRTF, and played > back through calibrated/corrected headphones. > > Len Moskowitz (mosko...@core-sound.com) > Core Sound LLC > www.core-sound.com > Home of OctoMic and TetraMic > _______________________________________________ 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.
