Hooknej
New Head-Fier
I've been messing with and enjoying Impulcifer for the last few weeks and wanted to share some thoughts, but the BLUF is that this is the real deal and if you take some time to do things right you will be rewarded with the best speaker recreation through headphones this side of the Smyth Realiser systems.
- I have the Realiser A16 pre-ordered and while waiting have gone down the rabbit hole trying to get something close. I have tried or purchased OOYH, the Audeze Mobius, WIndows Sonic, Dolby Atmos, HeSuVI... basically everything except the creative SXFi. Impulcifer is far and away the best recreation of listening to my sound system in my living room. I frequently have to remove my headphones to make sure the speakers aren't playing. It's amazing.
- I used the Sound Professionals SP-TFB-2 and Roland CS10-EM binaural microphones, recording each through both my PCs motherboard and through a Zoom H1N. Using the Zoom vs onboard made a large difference in imaging, in putting the speakers where they 'belong' in the room through headphones. Using the Sound Professional mics pushed things over the edge and brought the headphone sound qualities closer to the actual speakers. Going back and forth in the HeSuVI presets is a huge difference - Buy the Sound Professionals and use the Zoom as the bare minimum starting point for the recordings - quality of recording equipment makes a big difference in the final results.
- I am tech literate, but don't spend a lot of time with the Windows CMD interface, so the installation and use instructions for Impulcifer were a little bit intimidating. Overall though, jaakkopasanen's instructions are great and if you have any problems he is very responsive and seems willing to help. Overall, it wasn't hard but a GUI one day would be nice!
- Lastly, I am currently using my Sennheiser HD598s while I wait for my Stax to arrive - I can't wait to see how much further I can push things with the upgraded headphones.
Anyways, I just wanted to say thanks to jaakkopasanen for an awesome program and for making me question whether I actually needed to spend all of that money on the realiser.....
- I have the Realiser A16 pre-ordered and while waiting have gone down the rabbit hole trying to get something close. I have tried or purchased OOYH, the Audeze Mobius, WIndows Sonic, Dolby Atmos, HeSuVI... basically everything except the creative SXFi. Impulcifer is far and away the best recreation of listening to my sound system in my living room. I frequently have to remove my headphones to make sure the speakers aren't playing. It's amazing.
- I used the Sound Professionals SP-TFB-2 and Roland CS10-EM binaural microphones, recording each through both my PCs motherboard and through a Zoom H1N. Using the Zoom vs onboard made a large difference in imaging, in putting the speakers where they 'belong' in the room through headphones. Using the Sound Professional mics pushed things over the edge and brought the headphone sound qualities closer to the actual speakers. Going back and forth in the HeSuVI presets is a huge difference - Buy the Sound Professionals and use the Zoom as the bare minimum starting point for the recordings - quality of recording equipment makes a big difference in the final results.
- I am tech literate, but don't spend a lot of time with the Windows CMD interface, so the installation and use instructions for Impulcifer were a little bit intimidating. Overall though, jaakkopasanen's instructions are great and if you have any problems he is very responsive and seems willing to help. Overall, it wasn't hard but a GUI one day would be nice!
- Lastly, I am currently using my Sennheiser HD598s while I wait for my Stax to arrive - I can't wait to see how much further I can push things with the upgraded headphones.
Anyways, I just wanted to say thanks to jaakkopasanen for an awesome program and for making me question whether I actually needed to spend all of that money on the realiser.....