ear8dmg
500+ Head-Fier
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http://myears.net.au/
Something for you all to have a play with. At the moment it's a free beta. It will become a subscription service from September if I understand all the readmes
Basically put on your headphones, do some calibration tests and it lets you download a driver with a custom HRTF for your own use. You can calibrate to different sets of headphones and save separate profiles if you like.
First impressions - it works. It seems to give me better results than CMSS-3D. Compared to Dolby Headphone it perhaps gives less sense of distance to the virtual speakers but resolves with more depth. I still think I prefer Dolby Headphone, at this stage though.
Quick testing in Deus Ex and DIRT 2 indicates it's working fine for games. I also got it working in Foobar2000 by setting the Virtual Audio Cable it installs as the output device. There are a couple of latency and clock rate sync issues but for a beta I think it's promising
The driver works using a virtual audio cable. If I understand the way it works, it could be used to pass multichannel audio from any sound device to another. You could, for example, install a Xonar and and X-Fi in the same system. This might allow you to render gaming audio on the X-Fi and then use the Xonar to output it as Dolby Headphone. I don't have a Xonar at the moment to test this hypothesis but it's tempting to grab a Xonar DG and give it a crack.
Edit: further testing indicates that the virtual audio cable is limited to 8 channel 16 bit 96 khz. That may limit its use. Try and change any of that and the whole schebang stops working.
The driver works using a virtual audio cable. If I understand the way it works, it could be used to pass multichannel audio from any sound device to another. You could, for example, install a Xonar and and X-Fi in the same system. This might allow you to render gaming audio on the X-Fi and then use the Xonar to output it as Dolby Headphone. I don't have a Xonar at the moment to test this hypothesis but it's tempting to grab a Xonar DG and give it a crack.http://myears.net.au/
Something for you all to have a play with. At the moment it's a free beta. It will become a subscription service from September if I understand all the readmes
Basically put on your headphones, do some calibration tests and it lets you download a driver with a custom HRTF for your own use. You can calibrate to different sets of headphones and save separate profiles if you like.
First impressions - it works. It seems to give me better results than CMSS-3D. Compared to Dolby Headphone it perhaps gives less sense of distance to the virtual speakers but resolves with more depth. I still think I prefer Dolby Headphone, at this stage though.
Quick testing in Deus Ex and DIRT 2 indicates it's working fine for games. I also got it working in Foobar2000 by setting the Virtual Audio Cable it installs as the output device.
The driver works using a virtual audio cable. If I understand the way it works, it could be used to pass multichannel audio from any sound device to another. You could, for example, install a Xonar and and X-Fi in the same system. This might allow you to render gaming audio on the X-Fi and then use the Xonar to output it as Dolby Headphone. I don't have a Xonar at the moment to test this hypothesis but it's tempting to grab a Xonar DG and give it a crack.
