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Dolby headphone for music?

post #1 of 10
12/26/11 at 7:45am
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Not sure this is the right place for this but does anyone else use dolby headphone for their music? ive found it makes the music sound better imo on my sound card what do you guys think or is it mostly used for movies/games? rolleyes.gif

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post #2 of 10
12/26/11 at 8:42am

It absolutely murders sound quality, so no I don't use it.

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post #3 of 10
12/26/11 at 9:27am
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Wow really? it makes my creative fatal1ty headset sound alot better it makes it more ugh whats the word,,,full sounding? 

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post #4 of 10
12/26/11 at 9:50am
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Originally Posted by Gr33nL34f View Post

Wow really? it makes my creative fatal1ty headset sound alot better it makes it more ugh whats the word,,,full sounding? 


I use it too but only with a custom foobar2000 dolby headphone config I've tweaked. Without channel mixer and EQ anti measurements I don't find it good sounding, like above poster said, results too much on sound quality but try this foobar2000 config if you really like dolby headphone as this has barely any sound quality impact while greatly enhancing the soundstage and positioning:

 

http://www30.zippyshare.com/v/47211237/file.html (Remember to disable dolby headphone in the soundcard if it's enabled as it would get enabled twice and start sounding weird)
 
If you use a soundcard as your source (onboard sound or a PCI/PCI-E soundcard) I recommend you put speaker config into 5.1 speakers, sounds even better then.
 
 
 
Here's 3 examples that's been recorded with the config:
 

Edited by RPGWiZaRD - 12/26/11 at 9:57am
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post #5 of 10
12/26/11 at 9:57am
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I use a asus xonar dg sound card w/built in amp and dolby headphone i use the custom effect that comes with its software i keep it on the "soft rock" setting to me it sounds good with all music over the other settings. i also keep the audio channel on 4 channels it goes up to 8 i dont know what that really affects though and the sample rate at pcm 96khz.

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post #6 of 10
12/26/11 at 10:06am
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Originally Posted by Gr33nL34f View Post

I use a asus xonar dg sound card w/built in amp and dolby headphone i use the custom effect that comes with its software i keep it on the "soft rock" setting to me it sounds good with all music over the other settings. i also keep the audio channel on 4 channels it goes up to 8 i dont know what that really affects though and the sample rate at pcm 96khz.


Use 6 channels, others have reported it working the best then, not sure if it will be a big difference but you should get "center" channel dolby headphone info then as well, at least if you'd try my foobar2000 dolby config it will have slight difference as I tweaked the center channel setting slightly there so. When you use 5.1 speaker / 6 channels with dolby headphone it somehow processes the signal as 5.1 but outputs into stereo still so you don't miss out on the rear channels etc.

 

I think it sounds really poor without the combination of channel mixer plugin in foobar2000, the treble is pushed way back, the sound is more laid-back and muffled, the channel mixer fixes this though, brings it to the "front". It really changes how dolby headphone sounds like bigtime, then I finally use a bit of EQing to fix the remaining frequency balance change Dolby Headphone brings.


Edited by RPGWiZaRD - 12/26/11 at 10:24am
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post #7 of 10
12/26/11 at 10:26am
doby headphone might not work well on certain headphones since all doby headphone really is. is a ''diffused-field'' equalization process. most surround-sound processing is diffused-field equalized, even with speakers.
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post #8 of 10
12/26/11 at 10:37am
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Originally Posted by RexAeterna View Post

doby headphone might not work well on certain headphones since all doby headphone really is. is a ''diffused-field'' equalization process. most surround-sound processing is diffused-field equalized, even with speakers.


Has worked great with all headphones I've tried with the custom foobar2000 config. :)

 

I've thought about making a video demonstrating the differences in my custom config:

 

Stock foobar 

vs

Dolby Headphone

vs

Dolby Headphone+channel mixer

vs 

Dolby Headphone+channel mixer+EQ

 

You can hear a very distinct difference with all those steps. Stock foobar sounds definitely better than just enabling Dolby Headphone but enabling also channel mixer plugin things really starts happening.

 


Edited by RPGWiZaRD - 12/26/11 at 10:38am
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post #9 of 10
12/26/11 at 12:31pm
i know it can work great. just mentioning some headphone might not be easily able to be tuned for doby headphone.
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post #10 of 10
12/26/11 at 12:45pm
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Originally Posted by RexAeterna View Post

doby headphone might not work well on certain headphones since all doby headphone really is. is a ''diffused-field'' equalization process. most surround-sound processing is diffused-field equalized, even with speakers.

 

It isn't just EQ. I have a Denon minisystem that does Dolby HP. I can clearly hear simulated room echoes.
 

 

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