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and you can safely say that flat sounds different to everyone. and that flat doesn't really matter.
and also colors may look different to everyone, just because you and i agree something is green doesn't truly mean the neurons in our brains are firing the same neurotransmitters to our sensory areas.
anyways, HRTF is more or less the recording or decoding's job. soundfield effects arn't really applicable to a 'flat' sound - or if it is, it is not something that changes or is again recording/decoding's job.
ignoring the fact that an IEM bypasses the outer ear, if we are aiming for the same response from hearing an actual instrument recorded perfectly - wouldn't exact frequency response of "binaural recordings of harmonicless test-tones through technically perfect amplification" be well... perfect? if the way exact synthetic frequencies (keep in mind instruments are essentially combinations of frequencies - all of which are being accurately reproduced synthetically at eaqual frequencies).
taking into account an IEM bypasses the outer ear: which is probably the more inconsistant and different thing about human beings and any sound engineer would want to take their own outer ear out of the equation to result in a more unified agreement on sound.
now don't closed headphones actualy alter the outer ear by pushing on it and making it flatter?
Originally Posted by Carl /img/forum/go_quote.gif Which leads us to the metaphysical question "what does flat sound like". |
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Originally Posted by Carl /img/forum/go_quote.gif Hardly. They may have roughly mapped out the frequency effects of "typical" human ear canals and made IEMs voiced to approximate that, but issues such as head related transfer functions, soundfield effects, and the complex phase and harmonic spectra relationships between our inner and outer ear are barely understood by anybody. So unless our musical experiences consist soley of listening to binaural recordings of harmonicless test-tones through technically perfect amplification, I feel I can safely say that no one knows what flat sounds like. |
and you can safely say that flat sounds different to everyone. and that flat doesn't really matter.
and also colors may look different to everyone, just because you and i agree something is green doesn't truly mean the neurons in our brains are firing the same neurotransmitters to our sensory areas.
anyways, HRTF is more or less the recording or decoding's job. soundfield effects arn't really applicable to a 'flat' sound - or if it is, it is not something that changes or is again recording/decoding's job.
ignoring the fact that an IEM bypasses the outer ear, if we are aiming for the same response from hearing an actual instrument recorded perfectly - wouldn't exact frequency response of "binaural recordings of harmonicless test-tones through technically perfect amplification" be well... perfect? if the way exact synthetic frequencies (keep in mind instruments are essentially combinations of frequencies - all of which are being accurately reproduced synthetically at eaqual frequencies).
taking into account an IEM bypasses the outer ear: which is probably the more inconsistant and different thing about human beings and any sound engineer would want to take their own outer ear out of the equation to result in a more unified agreement on sound.
now don't closed headphones actualy alter the outer ear by pushing on it and making it flatter?