5.1 Headphone experience *Foobar configuration for all stereo music files* - Page 9

Wow, this is just ridiculous. I normally can't stand foobar, but this has made me switch. I keep switching back and forth between WMP and foobar with these setting. I too am a sucker for soundstage, especially when listening to orchestrated music. Just about the one thing I don't totally love bout my budget phone HARX700s.

I'm seriously shocked. An old rendition of Pavarotti singing Nessun Dorma sounds like it's enveloping me. A MONO one.

Since my setup is extremely basic, and I'm new to this audiophile stuff, I can't spot any quality dips in my hour or so of switching between regular and Dolby.

Thank you so much!

It only gets better once your gear is upgraded.

Honestly just scared the crap out of me. With some good Copland, the effect is stunning.

What setting are you guys using for Dolby Headphone?

USG

Center: 90
Rear: 200

I meant this one.............



USG

In that case, DH2 - Live Room.

In your opinion, what are the differences you hear between the three settings?

Why did you choose Live Room over the Reference Room?

USG

I think its mostly user preference but the D2 setting seems to be the best compromise for the correct spatial representation of the virtual speakers. D1 is too subtle... too close to the head. D3 seems distant, sometimes boomy, and sort of all over the place to me. D2 seems just about right. Different genres may require different settings though, and to be honest I've played with this feature more when I've used Dolby Headphone to watch movies than I have listening to music. For films its often down to the film genre. Large epic-type films sometimes sound better with the D3 setting.

How did you get the movie sound track to play with "Dolby Headphone"?

USG

That's cool. I don't know if I like it better than my original settings, but it's an option to mess around with, at least, and that's what I'm going to do for the next few days. I'll see if it grows on me.

Either way, thanks for creating this thread. It was very easy to set up.

It's exactly what you said.

I've been playing with these settings....

Headphones are a "Big" system, right?

Not too shabby....

Very cool to play with.

Thanks for the heads up.

I was wondering if someone could help me with Channel Mixer. I dl it and put it in the components folder, but I can't do anything with it. I can't open it and it doesn't show up in the Available DSPs in foobar. What's wrong with it? I'm sure it's probably something I'm not familiar with. Please help me.

Did you extract it? In other words is the file in your foobar components folder a DLL? I had to search for and download a program called 7-zip to work with the Channel Mixer download. I wish the author had just used zip!