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P3D Re: binaural sound

  • From: Jim Crowell <crowell.20@xxxxxxx>
  • Subject: P3D Re: binaural sound
  • Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 08:45:30 -0700
>I should also tell you that binaural recordings may work best
>with earphones that fit snugly inside the ear, like the expensive
>Entymotic phones. And there's some discussion among binaural
>tweaksters about whether (or how much) small differences between
>one's own ears and those of the dummy head contribute to distortion
>of the stereo field. Sound familiar?

Certainly there's evidence that individual differences in the shape 
of the ear are important for localizing sounds.    I  remember 
getting a message a few years back from someone in SF who was working 
on _individualized_ binaural recordings...

-Jim C.

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