Quote from: LFF on June 20, 2013, 07:50:33 AMI've given up on new "technologies" like this. To me, they are just gimmicks in hopes of earning an extra buck. I sometimes wonder if these DSP engineers understand how the ear and mastering actually work. I don't want to be an apologist for corporate R&D departments, but I wouldn't be too quick to cheapen their work with words like "gimmick" and "extra buck". Yeah, I think they live in a different world, and yeah, I think they get lead around by the nose by "the body of research (that often sucks)" or by marketing departments that don't know the real line between fantasy and what can actually be pulled off. But the guys working on this stuff (based on my experience in the past with Sennheiser and recent trips to Harman and DTS) are very well informed and up to speed on the problems and how difficult they are to solve. I think we suffer from "group think" on these issues as well, and sometimes think the we've got special knowledge that others "aren't getting". The truth, however, is more along the lines of everybody fumbling around as best they can in a fuster cluck of human endeavor. Our heads (the royal "our" meaning everybody involved) are way ahead of what we can actually make appear in the market. So what looks like a gimmick is really just a small step in the right direction, but it's a very small step....to small to be worth much on its own.Bottom line: pschoacoustics are tough. They're bound to fumble around for quite a while solving the problems. And until they do, their products will sound like gimmicks. But I'll betcha that as manufacturers make better headphones, and as folks like DTS put a create a corporate demand for headphones that perform well, we'll start seeing things like Headphone-X working better and better.
I've given up on new "technologies" like this. To me, they are just gimmicks in hopes of earning an extra buck. I sometimes wonder if these DSP engineers understand how the ear and mastering actually work.
One thing I thought about the Headphone-X thing being primarily thought of as a tablet/phone product by DTS, is that they may be able to use the facial recognition software already on such devices to determine head movement. Just a wild ass thought though.
