j4cbo
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With the return to popularity of multichannel audio, a lot of albums are being rereleased in surround-sound format. This is all well and good for people who have multi-speaker systems, but doesn't help us headphone types much at all.
It seems to me that it should be possible to use a head-related transfer function to mix a multi-channel source into a binaural track designed to be played back over headphones. If done properly, the three-dimensional soundstage would be entirely preserved. I would think this has been done before, but I've spent quite a while searching for implementations and demos and found nothing. True binaural recording is difficult and rare, but 5.1 mixes are becoming increasingly common; why not turn one into the other?
Anyone tried anything like this?
It seems to me that it should be possible to use a head-related transfer function to mix a multi-channel source into a binaural track designed to be played back over headphones. If done properly, the three-dimensional soundstage would be entirely preserved. I would think this has been done before, but I've spent quite a while searching for implementations and demos and found nothing. True binaural recording is difficult and rare, but 5.1 mixes are becoming increasingly common; why not turn one into the other?
Anyone tried anything like this?