i am wondering if we cannot produce HRTFs the way the first produced spectacle lenses. one needs to look at the range of variations in HRTFs and what actually varies from person to person and produce a dozen or so hrtfs. people can just try them and stick with the one they like. a real time, streaming b-format to binaural programme into which the hrtf can be plugged in is all that will be needed. umashankar
i have published my poems. read (or buy) at http://stores.lulu.com/umashankar > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:57:53 -0700 > From: gre...@math.ucla.edu > To: sursound@music.vt.edu > Subject: Re: [Sursound] Patent application: Data structure for HOA > > > This is absolutely true. My late first wife > heard stereo as two separate speakers no > matter how well the speakers worked for others. > She liked mono a lot better. > Surround sound was a n ightmare from her viewpoint-- > all those speakers playing from different directions > each on heard individually. > > She was a person of > almost uncanny hearing acuity and resolution > for lack of a better word, > able to recognize concert halls on recordings > in seconds, and hear inner parts of orchestral > music amazingly. Conductors would consult > her on balance questions when she came > to rehearsals of events where I was playing. > Audio manufacturers and makers of recordings > may have respected my published > judgments--but they were terrified of hers made in private > though often I quoted her in my reviews, and the makers were > duly gratified if she liked something. > It might have been that her unusual acuity was > in action in her hearing what is of course > really there in stereo--two speakers. > Anyway, it is really true that if you wait for something > that works for everyone, you will wait a very long time! > Robert > > On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, Richard Dobson wrote: > > > The same is true of stereo too. There are people who just don't hear stereo > > as stereo. If the response to "lack of perfection" is always "do nothing", > > nothing will be done. Alternatively, if you use those generic HRTFs, at > > least > > ~some~ people will be happy. > > > > BTW, the AES has just announced a project "AES-X212" to develop a file > > format > > for HRTF data; "The format will be designed to include source materials > > from > > different HRTF databases". See: > > > > http://www.aes.org/standards/meetings/new-projects.cfm > > > > > > Richard Dobson > > > > On 31/10/2012 16:38, Martin Leese wrote: > >> Peter Lennox wrote: > >> > >>> Yes but...why not simply release stuff for mobiles in a generic binaural - > >>> skip the uhj altogether? > >> > >> Please, what is this "generic binaural"? > >> > >> Everyone has an individual HRTF. If you > >> release binaural recording using a generic > >> HRTF then it will work for some and not for > >> others. > >> > >> There have been attempts to systemise HRTFs, > >> so that you set about four different parameters > >> to produce an individual HRTF, but they never > >> caught on. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Martin > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sursound mailing list > > Sursound@music.vt.edu > > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20121101/cdb9d789/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
