Re: [Sursound] Sennheiser Ambeo recording headphones

[Len Moskowitz]

Jon Honeyball wrotes:

Now I quite like the Ambeo headphone/binaural mic thing. Its 
interesting, its small, its cute, and the recordings are adequate 
(even though you only get a choice of two fixed record levels ? errr, 
why???)


The Apogee software is incomplete, buggy and doesn?t do what it 
claims. Yes, I expected rather better from Apogee and Sennheiser.


You might consider a set of our binaural microphones. We've been making 
them since 1990. We're the largest manufacturer of binaural mics in the 
world.


We offer them three price levels, ranging in price from $75 per matched 
pair to a bit over $1000 (using a matched pair of DPA 4060-series 
capsules). They're the Low Cost Binaural, Core Sound Binaurals (for 
around $260 per matched pair) and High End Binaurals.


They all terminate in a standard 1/8-inch (3.5 mm) stereo plug. You'd 
use any common 2-channel audio recorder to record.


See our web site for details, including dozens of user comments on all 
three price levels.



Len Moskowitz (mosko...@core-sound.com)
Core Sound LLC
www.core-sound.com
Home of TetraMic and OctoMic



Jon

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[Sursound] Sennheiser Ambeo recording headphones

[Jon Honeyball]

Bought the Sennheiser Ambeo binaural recording headphones. I wanted some on-ear 
mics, and this seemed a relatively cheap and easy way to solve the problem.

(Background requirement — wanting to measure the spectral shape of noise in a 
motorbike helmet, so when i am doing noise testing using my GRAS artificial ear 
and cheek, I am at least driving it with the sort of spectral noise that you 
actually get in a helmet. Yes, its not precise, but it was an interesting bit 
of “I wonder…” fun R)

The Ambeo headphones plug into an iPhone using a lightening port. This powers 
the headphones, acts as the IO for the mics and headphones etc.

Sennheiser recommends an app from Apogee called MetaRecorder. I downloaded it. 
It only records for 60 seconds in the free version. Yes, 60 seconds. To get 
proper length recording you have to cough up £4.99 for a single device full 
version

So I paid

I did some recordings, and decided to use its “Send to Dropbox” feature to copy 
my recordings out. Dropbox throws a warning that Apogee is using an old API 
that will stop working in a few months. Tried it anyway. That doesn’t work, 
output to Dropbox keels over. Contacted Apogee support. They admit it doesn’t 
work. It might get fixed. But they have no timescale.

Now I quite like the Ambeo headphone/binaural mic thing. Its interesting, its 
small, its cute, and the recordings are adequate (even though you only get a 
choice of two fixed record levels — errr, why???)

The Apogee software is incomplete, buggy and doesn’t do what it claims. Yes, I 
expected rather better from Apogee and Sennheiser. 

Jon
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