On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > To all who are thinking about real 5.1 versus headphones - do not forget > at least two important things: > > 1) sound perception greatly depend on reverberation, so a headphones solution > should take care of this too; reverb in an 8x10 room is totally different from that in a concert hall. > > 2) sound localization greatly depends on humans' ability to instinctively > rotate there heads a little - this luxury exists with speakers and not with > headphones, rather, with headphones it doesn't help to better localize sound > source location. Agreed. For small speakers in a small room, this probably works against you, since you can localize those speakers too easily-- rather than the sound stage localisation. > > I've done very extensive experimenting WRT to headphones virtualization and > have a read a lot of literature on this. But the question is, for a given amount of money ($400 in the OP case) for which do you get the bigger bang ( or the better soundstage) for the buck. I would argue that it is for the headphone route. > > YMMV. > > Regards, > Sergei. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > -- William G. Unruh | Canadian Institute for| Tel: +1(604)822-3273 Physics&Astronomy | Advanced Research | Fax: +1(604)822-5324 UBC, Vancouver,BC | Program in Cosmology | unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Canada V6T 1Z1 | and Gravity | www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
