wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote: "No, actually it has very little impact on how you perceive a headphone's sound,
which is the problem. You're used to listening through your personal HRTF day
in and day out, and then you put on headphones and you're listening to "
So then I guess I'd better pay more attention to the very headphone response graphs
http://cdn.head-fi.org/5/57/1000x500...one-Curves.JPG
so many of you, not just Dorsey, told me weren't to be taken too seriously just a few years ago.
The reason they aren't to be taken too seriously doesn't have to do with the
HRTF... it's due to the shape of your inner ear rather than your outer ear
below 500 Hz or so, and due to positioning issues above 5 Khz or so. The
HRTF has to do with the characteristics of sound from the free field getting
to your ears (which is mostly outer ear and head shape).
--scott
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