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
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