Roger is obviously a fan of binaural recordings. He argues that a single microphone for each channel delivered via headphones to our ears delivers a convincing “you-are-there” listening experience. I don’t disagree but there’s more to the story than producing a “sonic documentary” for music consumers. The sound of recorded music is fundamentally different than a live concert experience \u2014 and that’s as it should be if you ask me. Binaural recordings succeed to a great degree in delivering immersive 3D audio. All you have to do is search for binaural recordings on YouTube and you’ll be able to get your hair cut, hear David Chesky walk through a large NYC Cathedral, or listen to a nature preserve in full surround. I made a lot of nature recordings during the week that I had a Sennheiser KU-81U “Fritz” binaural head 30 years ago. It works.<\/p>\n
But there’s a downside to binaurally recorded tracks as well \u2014 the loss of presence. The sense that you are close to a sound is lost when a single microphone is placed some distance away from the sound source. It turns out that there’s a very clever way to rectify this critical flaw in binaural albums. Take a well-recorded surround track (5.1 or 7.1 or 11.4) and “binauralize” it using software.<\/p>\n
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As readers and supporters of this site, I would like to ask you to help in bringing awareness to an innovative product that a close friend of mine is developing that makes use of binaural sound projection. I’ll get into more details over the next few posts, but the YARRA 3DX<\/a> speaker array that he’s about to launch on Kckstarter is a remarkable technology and worthy of support. Imagine the immersive, “you-are-there”, quality of binaural with the intimacy of commercial tracks without the need for headphones and you’ll start to understand the revolutionary nature of this product. We need to develop a healthy email list prior to our launch. If you or someone you know is interested in a smart sound bar (and subwoofer) that can deliver immersive, 5.1 surround sound for games, music, home theater and more for less than $500 (with an opportunity to get up to 50% off during the campaign), then please visit the site and sign up. We promise never to spam you or distribute the list. I really think they’re on to something truly disruptive. Again please visit, YARRA 3DX<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was certainly nice to see returning attendees and meet new faces at the recent AXPONA audio show in Chicago<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,12,16],"tags":[97,657,50,40,172,54,1137,540,1122,192,1128,1130,1141,1032,1138,1140,70,640,1092,26,639,1043,1129,980,1061,42,298,251,645,638,637,227,643,169,1101,855,1026,1027,150,1143,347,27,116,659,1131,1132,1139,1142],"class_list":["post-5988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dr_aixs_posts","category-news","category-techtalk","tag-5-1-surround","tag-advanced-resolution","tag-aix-records","tag-analog-vs-digital","tag-audio-resolution","tag-axpona","tag-axpona-2017","tag-axpona-show-report","tag-beam-forming","tag-binaural","tag-cea-2017-hi-res-audio","tag-ces-2017","tag-dgitial-audio-review","tag-dvd_audio","tag-emotiva","tag-gordon-rankin","tag-hd-downloads","tag-hd-music","tag-hd-vinyl","tag-hd-audio","tag-hi-res-audio","tag-hi-res","tag-hi-res-audio-pavilion","tag-hi-res-music","tag-hi-res-sound","tag-high-resolution-audio","tag-high-res-music","tag-high-resolution","tag-high-resolution-audio-experience","tag-hires-audio","tag-hires-music","tag-hra","tag-hra-listening-experience","tag-mark-waldrep","tag-master-class","tag-mqa","tag-music-and-audio","tag-music-and-audio-a-user-guide-to-better-sound","tag-pcm","tag-sound-bar","tag-spectragram","tag-spectragraphs","tag-surround-music","tag-uhd-audio","tag-umg","tag-universal-music-group","tag-usb","tag-yarra-3dx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5999,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5988\/revisions\/5999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}