The Smyth Research Realiser A16 SE (Speaker Edition) is a special version of the Realiser A16 for listening to Dolby Atmos and DTS: X movies, music, games or series on two Hi-Fi speakers, using patented AudioXD technology. The advantage would be a Realiser A16 unit with two operating modes...

Hello A16 owners... At this point... I think I can share a screenshot and some info of a soon to be released project... It should go (fully) live in a month or two... might be longer. The website is www.3dsoundshop.com ... just the basics for now. Universal PRIRs... Through the website...

Friday I got the new Oculus Go in from Amazon. I'm not a gaming person at all, and I've never had a chance to play with VR. My interest is in movies and music. But I can see this as having the potential to have a huge impact on the home theater market. It also suggests a few things about the...

This post was written to try to answer the following questions: Since immersive audio is a broad subject, I believe it deserves its own thread. Question 1 Fundamental There would be something fundamentally wrong if all types off recordings suffered from such unique distortion. But each...

I see a new product being advertised and I was wondering about your take on it. I'm driven to post in this forum because "tube magic" is mentioned four times on the product description page and it seemed hokey. Based on my reading, it seems that more scientific explanations prevail here than...

I've tried a multitude of headphones since getting into the hobby at the beginning of this year. I love soundstage in headphones, though not at the cost of imaging, and was wondering about the science behind angled drivers in relation to the ear cup housing. Context: after trying the HD569...

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We talk a lot about the science behind digital audio and electronics, but not so much about acoustics. I've been working on my speaker system lately and through trial and error, I've stumbled across something that works really well, but I'd like to understand the science behind it a little...

A.) The size of the soundstage is determined by the width between the speakers. with stereo at a normal listening distance, you don't want more than 8 feet or so between the speakers. If you push them any wider apart, you have to sit further back, which reduces the perceived size of the...

Can someone please provide an explanation (a link to website would be fine) on how we hear height with earphones. Just normal stereo recordings.   I've read that the outer ear/inner ear has a role to play in terms of reflections etc. but with IEMs that interplay is removed, right?   I keep...

If we define accuracy in audio playback as "how close something is to the original," then we have to ask "what is the original?" and "what are we comparing it to?" The original is a sound field experienced by a human being. The reproduction is a sound field experienced by a human being.  ...

"If we can manage to design the ideal custom listening space and speakers in the virtual domain, well, then we have also succeeded in creating the ultimate room correction solution—replacing the real room with a virtual room, decked out to provide the best possible listening environment!"  ...

  Realiser A16 Main Features   Any listening impressions at the Munich High End Show?

should I walk looking down when listening to music?   I don't know if this happens to many people(I do know I'm not alone), if it has to do with me or my gears, but if I take a voice and put it in mono, I never get it in front of me. instead the voice will be at an angle above me. with sounds...

Has anybody had this experience? let's say..  Two different but very good state of the art audio setups and rooms, I will call them Setup A and Setup B. Now In setup A some very good  recordings sound better/different in A than in B but others sound better in B than in A, The same happens with...

Hi !   i am going to make a strong statement here. The day that someone will be able with some kind of signal processing to create the illusion of sound coming from the front also with headphones ... everybody will switch immediately to headphones ! For me it is absolutely the main drawback...

I really don't know where to post this. I'm sorry if it's in the wrong place.   Okay, I know this sounds like a dumb question, but yesterday, I downloaded my first Binaural recording (Burst at The Seams by Polar Knights). I played it on my 598's, and it sounds great! What I was wondering is if...

I've had the opportunity for the past 4 months to experiment with the addition of cross-feed to my headphone rig (see my signature).  In my case it's a custom designed 6 level balanced cross-feeder.  I'm extremely pleased with this major enhancement to my listening experience and I find several...

A quick divergence from DIY electrostatic projects... working on making a DIY stereo smyth realiser (couldn't care less about any more than 2 channels, only listen to music - can get by with a lot less DSP than the 8-channel realiser needs).     Currently my hardware is a Digilent Nexys 4...

Just wondering what anyone thinks about testing headphones on a coupler, with pinna and simulated ear canal, versus no pinna and no canal.  The second option would just be a simple plate with a mic or mics flush mounted in it.   The pro-pinna argument might be stated:  Real conditions...

Frankly I don't think any headphone can stand a chance against speakers in producing the sound field which imitates live music. Many hifi-ers go to a lot of orchestral performances and compare with their speaker systems to see what they can achieve. Although I think no gear on earth can ever...

I thought it might be a nice idea to see who likes or dislikes crossfeed.   Please vote and share your opinion either way. I wanna hear what people here have to say about it one way or another.