Is it OK to argue with myself and post again, in the hopes of clarification? If not, please don't flame me!
Here goes:
The Smyth optimization/personalization process is automatic, so clearly it is more convenient. It replicates the physical speaker system, so your speakers better be good, or you have to travel to a measurement room. And you can experiment only by moving physical speakers.
You manipulate the sound of the Beyer Headzone by moving virtual speakers. The optimization process is manual, iterative, entirely subjective. You listen, then fiddle with the settings, over and over I assume. But you are not trying to match anything, just trying to optimize the sound. At home. And you don't even have to own speakers.
Are their not advantages to both approaches?
I assume the head tracking works the same on both, but don't know for sure. It would seem to from the various descriptions on the Web.
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