SoundMods wrote:
Binaural recordings cannot duplicate the HRTF functions of each individual listener. During your whole life your brain is learning to translate the comb filtering caused by each of your body parts to determine positioning and space. The construction of the headphones does not restore that function.
Nice word salad, but the fact remains that HRTF is only an attempt to digitally replicate the binaural experience using ordinary stereo recordings. A binaural recording is made quite differently from ordinary stereo as you should know.
It replicates a person sitting in front of the orchestra and how that performance would sound. Our brains can process that experience with headphones as though the person was actually there. Very cool!
Here is but one example of a binaural recording "head."
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/ ... 4AQAvD_BwE
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HRTF is not an attempt to duplicate the binaural experience. It is a physical phenomena of your body that drives how each individual determines spacial clues. It happens in real life with everything you hear. Binaural recordings use a dummy head to provide a pseudo HRTF that cannot match individual HRTFs because each person's body is different causing different comb filtering. However, using a recording that did not try to create a generic HRTF by using a dummy head and then applying it to algorithms that are experimentally determined for each individual, a closer approximation of the true space can be achieved than with a dummy head.