[adhoc]

reading through this entire thread, i'm surprised that no one has mentioned that possiblility of your brain interfering in your attempt to experience sound from 'the front'.

as in, your eyes happen to be located at the front of your head, so, seeing nothing, your brain possibly refuses to give you the complete impression that the source is located in front of you. that's why you have the impression that the sound is coming from the back, side, up, down- anywhere but from the front.

crane your neck and look up while listening to the same track: for those who experienced sound coming from above, is the sound in front of your eyes now? not likely. it will most probably be directly above the top of your head still.

it's the same way if one listens to a relatively uninspiring set of headphones for long enough, one can come to love it by virtue of getting used to it. or another example would be the placebo effect.



edited for spelling

 

[Newbie1]

Damn that JimTreats link doesnt work.........

 

[imokruok]

Yeah, it's too bad that some of the links are dead.

But I got the one with the box of matches. COOL!!!!! I WANT MORE!!!!!

 

[Elec]

Here's a couple I've held onto that are pretty good. Dunno how much downloadage Comcast allows, so hopefully these won't get raped

Can't remember where these came from originally, so hopefully they haven't already been posted.

1) http://home.comcast.net/~andy.strunk/InvitationLoud.mp3

2) http://home.comcast.net/~andy.strunk/SileypudLoud.mp3

First one is a good short voice positioning type demo. Second one is a bit of music with different instruments around you (or the dummy head).

I have a really good one I didn't post because it's almost 5 meg that has some voice, sound effect positioning, a bit of a dense, jungle-type music soundscape, a dramatic bit of storytelling, and an interrogation. Binaural sound is fun to play with, too bad there's not more out there. I was quite surprised with the matches that I could discern up/down as I've never experienced that before. Usually you just get the circle-around-head effect.

 

[JLukas]

Thanks for the links, the matches file was amazing

 

[PGK]

Can I say WOW! That is kewl. By dt250 were so real but my ety4s not as good which was suprising. I think the ety are just to close the dt250 have a little more space between your ear and the driver. But someone else said the cd3000 were not grate. I guess you need a slightly less accurate headset to slur the sound a bit to sound betterk, the ironery....

 

[kwhead]

Quote:

Originally posted by fewtch Grab the fireworks MP3 from this site, it's amazing: http://www.waterpump.f9.co.uk

Ok, that fireworks recording is pee-in-your-pants good.

 

[JeffL]

Binaural is damn cool

 

[NEO]

Just wonder, what we heard on the matches track is the demonstration of "Sound Stage" or 'Image"? Or they are the same....

 

[Distroyed]

http://jimtreats.crosswinds.net/MyT...aural/index.htm

This site no longer exists... does anyone have either a new link or can upload them to another site for those of us who missed it (or can at least pm me for icq transfer or something)?

 

[skiguy411]

I have always wondered how Bose got their demonstrations to sound so good! Now I know why! This stuff is great.

 

[gorman]

Quote:

Originally posted by Distroyed http://jimtreats.crosswinds.net/MyT...aural/index.htm This site no longer exists... does anyone have either a new link or can upload them to another site for those of us who missed it (or can at least pm me for icq transfer or something)?

I second this request. I'd really like to listen to these too...

 

[tomek]

i heard this file at the meet and I'd really like a link to it.

wow!

 

[DeadTrying]

I am very impressed by the first (matches) recording.
I had the aureal vortex 2 but i never felt so totally immersed as I did with that binaural recording. Some people mentioned that the quality of headphones you use are also very important. I don't totally agree with this. I was listening using my Sony Ex70's and with my eyes closed, It felt like the matches were right in front of me on two occasions in the recording. Indeed once you understand where the sound is coming from it becomes even more realistic. The hardest is when you have unpredictable movements, but really what it boils down to, is imagination.

Then again, it could just be that the Ex70's are exceptionally good earphones

 

[zachary80]

I got the feeling it was in front of me at forehead height

ER4B anyone

I can (at least temporarily) host the files if someone sends them to me....