Dolby Headphone - 5.1 surround sound through normal headphones...

[KAO]

Pigeon, if I can find it I'll see what I can do! Mind you, it's been years since I played the CD and I've moved house about 8 times since then, including countries three times

Fingers crossed the missus might know where all my 'junk' is!

ReTrO,

That would be ace, see what you can do. Just thinking about the whole binaural thing, the effect was pretty bl00dy good considering it must have have been a late seventies/early eighties technology. I remember Marantz producing a 'surround sound' amp a few years later that the press raved over, compared to whats available today it was total ****e. But it got me thinking, if the same development time and funding had been applied to the binaural technology who knows where we might be today!

One things for sure, with only two speakers necessary to recreate the effect, this hobby would be a damn sight cheaper.

[pointon]

Originally posted by Spectre


Well perhaps if you had bothered with the news - which is good quality IMO

In your opinion. Your opinion, as sound as it may be, isn't mine. This is one of the resounding pros of individualism. I choose not to read the information on these websites, but I have no critiscism of the news on this website. I simply prefer to obtain info from public forums. Personally I trust these much more than professionally acquired information and/or opinion.

So it's old news? It slipped me by first time. Am I not allowed to comment on it then when I hear about it? Of course I am. Or is a thread on old news not valued within these forums? If someone misses it first time around, is it a case of tough luck?

So you disagree with my approach completely. You chose differently. But I have made my own choice not to subscribe to the websites. I didn't start this thread to be critiscised for not reading HCC's news. I started it just so that maybe a few other people like me, who may have missed this, can read about it. If you know about it already, good for you. Share your opinions, please comment. But don't tell me what to do.

If the only comment anyone can add to a thread posted here is to simply say 'where've you been?', then it's not worth adding. Either share what you know or just move on.

We'll agree to differ.

[ReTrO]

From what I can remmember the STAX Cd's are doubles and come with nice light blue labling. They have a pic of a head with a pair of STAX electrostatics on.

We've also got a Sennheiser glass head, but you can't put mics in it which is a shame.

[Stuart Wright]

Pointon,
my point was that you asked about it where a quick search would have shown you easily accessible information about it. The subject has already been discussed.
Now for a reason I don't understand you choose not to use the free news service to find out information - that's fine.
My job is to try and keep the forums clutter free which sometimes includes pruning repeated queries for information previously covered. In this case I think a new discussion on the subject is worth exploring since the technology is becoming available to more people.

[pointon]

Without being a kiss-ass, let me say that you do a very good job keeping this place clutter free. I've been to many, many forums, most of which are nothing more than breeding grounds for spam and irrelevant verbal assaults.

But even though my posting may be old news to you and to many others, it isn't to me and perhaps isn't to a few more people. Therefore my posting is hardly clutter. Granted I posted it twice, but only because I felt it was relevant to both forums. I know one of those forums had just had a posting on this, but I wanted to put out a fresh, more obvious posting for those who, like me, hadn't heard of this before. If this is clutter, I won't do it again.

Usually, I don't get into arguements with forums administrators quite this quickly. Honest.

[ReTrO]

I've just got one of the STAX Audio CD's home. We had 4 at work but they were all the same.

1 The Space-Sound-CD
Dummy Head Recording

Will post more info later with pics, and maybe an mp3 of the first demo track (there are 21 in all).

CD serial no. AXCD 91101

PS would Spectre and Pionton please stop arguing, this is a more interesting thread without the boring posts.

[ReTrO]

cover pic

[pointon]

Heated discussion... not arguing.

[ReTrO]

So long as you record it in B-format I don't mind.

[KAO]

Retro, that's the one I have! I thought it was a JVC recording but it obviously was a Stax...nice one. I wish I could find my copy now!

Spectre said "I'm afraid this is old news."

Dolby Headphone itself is old news. We have known it has been coming for some time.
The fact that it has arrived as a separate track on a DVD (Pearl Harbor) is new news!

[MarkB]

In the proper Dolby Headphone – what's going to happen with matrix and discreet ES/EX channel? If it appears in between the 2 rears it will appear in the back if the head once again, which i thought they were trying to avoid.
Mark

[Keiron]

Getting back to the Dolby Headphone thing, am I right in thinking there aren't any products incorporating the technology available in the UK yet? Is it likely that there'll be some kind of gadget that will be able to sit between the headphones and the amp to create the effect?

Anyone wanting to know more about Dolby Headphone as a genuine technological leap would be well advised to check out the Audio Technology forum at www.Headwize.com.
There the issue attracts genuine discussion without being diluted by heated discussion and without being dismissed as "old news".