ironmine
500+ Head-Fier
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There is no "sound externalization magic and wow-factor". This is what the whole point is about. When you turn ear size and head size knobs, you do notice some small sonic and spatial differences but it's hard to say which settings are "better" or "more correct". Anyway, your ears become accustomed to any settings in several seconds and they seem to be as good as any other. However, the loss of detail and increased muddiness are something which you cannot get used to so easily.
In my opinion, we should wait until scientists will come up with some reliable way of measuring the individual anatomical differences of each person's ears and then using this 3D model to accurately simulate the sonic transformations happening in our pinnas and ear channels. Then we can hope to achieve some really convincing externalization of sound. Until then we are stuck with generalized lo-fi binaural approaches.
PS: I tried to find resonances in my own ears recently with SineGen and I found that my left ear and right ear have different resonant frequencies (7700 Hz right and 8400 Hz left). I hear how the volume rolls from one ear to another as I move the SineGen slider along the frequency axis. It's just an example to show how all ears are unique, even in the same person...
Is it like some magic setting that while you are turning the dial and you get to your exact head size the difference immediately WOWs you? Maybe my ears are not very tuned then, since I hear almost no difference when moving the headsize dial from one end to the other...
There is no "sound externalization magic and wow-factor". This is what the whole point is about. When you turn ear size and head size knobs, you do notice some small sonic and spatial differences but it's hard to say which settings are "better" or "more correct". Anyway, your ears become accustomed to any settings in several seconds and they seem to be as good as any other. However, the loss of detail and increased muddiness are something which you cannot get used to so easily.
In my opinion, we should wait until scientists will come up with some reliable way of measuring the individual anatomical differences of each person's ears and then using this 3D model to accurately simulate the sonic transformations happening in our pinnas and ear channels. Then we can hope to achieve some really convincing externalization of sound. Until then we are stuck with generalized lo-fi binaural approaches.
PS: I tried to find resonances in my own ears recently with SineGen and I found that my left ear and right ear have different resonant frequencies (7700 Hz right and 8400 Hz left). I hear how the volume rolls from one ear to another as I move the SineGen slider along the frequency axis. It's just an example to show how all ears are unique, even in the same person...