[Ph34rful]

I recently stumbled upon this:
http://www.naivesoftware.com/crossfeed.html
And since I normally use my computer as my listening source it really has made listening easier. I used to have a Corda HA-1 and I really missed the crossfeed on it. However this does the job quite nicely I think. I am of course using FooBar. (It sounds much better than Winamp)

My setup for comparison:
M-Audio Revolution
Outlaw PCAs
Grado RA-1
Sennheiser HD600 w/Equinox

Give it a try and let me know what you think!

 

[blessingx]

Yeah, and if anyone is on a Mac (the above is PC only), Canz3D is definitely the way to go. 25 settings to get the spatialization right.

 

[waffenschmidt]

Does anyone know a way to re-mix a wav with crossfeed added? I'd like to add crossfeed and then LAME to MP3 for use on my portable hard disk player.

 

[blessingx]

Yeah there are ways. If on a Mac it's possible with Audio Hijack Pro/Canz3D. On a PC, try Foobar and (thanks to dd3mon for pointing this out)
enable crossfeed, select diskwriter (to write to a file) and check "use dsp". You can in fact rerecord music at digital quality while applying any of Foobar's dsp's.

See this thread.

 

[lan]

Quote:

Originally posted by blessingx Yeah, and if anyone is on a Mac (the above is PC only), Canz3D is definitely the way to go. 25 settings to get the spatialization right.

it's a vst lugin? what sound player on mac can i use?

 

[blessingx]

BTW for the unlucky on PC's, Foobar is here. Also explore Hydrogen Audio while over there. Good stuff on compression.

For Canz3D, yeah it's a VST plugin. It's only $10, but requires something to plug it into. I use Audio Hijack Pro, but there are others listed on the Canz3D page. Also the non Pro Audio Hijack is suppose to take a single VST plugin so that may also be a possibility. Like it's name, Audio Hijack, hijacks the audio out of any player- Real, iTunes, Audion, QT, etc. The pro version can encode directly to lame mp3 or aiff. Song by song can get tedious though. Have splits by time or file size.

Also for not much more you can get a hardware solution from PinkFloyd. See here. I just ordered mine two days ago.

 

[blessingx]

A Canz3D review here.

 

[BoardC3]

Wow Foobar is definitely much higher in sound quality then Winamp2 + MAD, im getting alot more texture and detail out of it. HIGHLY SUGGESTED

 

[waffenschmidt]

Thanks, blessingx. I've been using foobar for playback, but I haven't checked out the diskwriter.

And sorry, Ph34rful, for hijacking your thread. To respond to your original point, I tried the foobar crossfeed briefly and it seems fine, but I haven't done any critical listening. Right now both of my amps have crossfeed (Corda HA-1 & Total Airhead) so I don't use foobar's; it's easier to flip a switch than to load/unload the DSP.

I normally only use crossfeed on recordings with extreme separation, and I'm not overly picky, although I don't care for the treble rolloff from Headroom's crossfeed.

 

[dd3mon]

Quote:

Originally posted by BoardC3 Wow Foobar is definitely much higher in sound quality then Winamp2 + MAD, im getting alot more texture and detail out of it. HIGHLY SUGGESTED

duh?

On a different note, I don't like the crossfeed plugin for Foobar. It expands the soundstage, but the tradeoffs are detail, impact and imaging.

-dd3mon