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In the Thread: TAS article: start of the Hi-End Industry
Post Subject: ....binaural....Posted by Andy Simpson on: 10/30/2007

I'm not sure if you should care but recently - at least within scientific circles - the term binaural has come to mean (more or less) dummy head - including pinnae (outer ears) - which includes interaural time & level differences, head-shape occlusion and significant (but not completely understood) 'spatial cues'. This kind of recording can only really be reproduced by headphone monitoring but is interesting nonetheless.

As far as I am concerned this kind of recording does not represent understanding of the hearing system, but rather an crude imitation applied without understanding, effective though it can be. Research in this area is painfully absent.

Andy

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