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In Volume Logic there was a spatial enhancer. And in Breakaway?
But please with individual settings for consumers
Howdy!
A spatial enhancer with individual settings for consumers?
What percentage of consumers do you think even know what a spatial enhancer is?? 🙂
And out of those, how many do you think would be able to actually adjust settings?
Because every button added makes it harder to use for consumers, I try to keep the options to a minimum, and make sure that every control really is worth its space.
I may add more buttons some day, but I don’t think spatial enhancement is a big enough feature to deserve its own button controls.
Have you tried placing your speakers in the optimal position (close enough for crisp sound, but far enough away for proper stereo imaging) and aiming them at your head?
This improves stereo imaging much more and cleaner than a spatial enhancer ever could.
///Leif
Optimum speaker placement for best spatial imaging and sound quality.
This type of setup works great even if there is a computer monitor or two between the speakers!
You just have to scale it down to fit the listening position you’re in.
Make sure you the tweeters are level with, and aimed at your head – this improves spatial imaging more than an algorithm ever could.
///Leif
And with headphones?
If I wanted to be a smart-ass I could tell you that the optimal placement for headphones… is on your head.
And then be serious about it. 😛But jokes aside… generally headphones have MUCH more accurate reproduction of the source’s spaciousness because they are as perfectly separated between L & R as the signal your AD/DA converter (if your signal path uses one) and your headphone amp provides to your headphones. 🙂
Hopefully that answers your question?
You’re absolutely right, Jesse! The correct location for headphones is in on the head (covering both ears, and when they’re used in that manner, you get very close to 100% stereo separation.
Spatial enhancers simulate a widening of the stereo field by gradually adjusting the speakers to be *out of phase*, so that there is some cancellation in the middle. This way, you can get more stereo separation than you otherwise would, but nowhere near 100%.
With headphones, you’re already at 100%, so spatial enhancement doesn’t apply. In fact, in headphones, for certain applications it’s useful to use room / speaker simulation, to DECREASE stereo separation. Dolby Headphone is an algorithm that does this, and it’s pretty convincing — I just wish it sounded better.
///Leif
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