Experience a lifelike simulation of listening in a premium recording studio through your headphones with myHRTF Personalized Filters (impulse responses); compatible with virtually all media players, EQ applications and plugins that support convolution, see details here.
Key Benefits
- Natural and fatigue-free sound
- Indistinguishable from real speakers
- Wide and deep soundstage in front
- Pinpoint imaging of sound sources
- Perfect bass with unprecedented punch
- Crosstalk-free sound by mouse click
Key Features
- Simulation of fullrange speakers:
- - perfect directivity & stereo symmetry
- - free from resonances and diffraction
- Simulation of flawless room acoustics:
- - free from room modes / flutter echos
- - free from unfavorable reflections
Room Acoustics and Speaker Distances
Speaker Angle
The standard speaker angle for stereo sound reproduction is 60°. Some experts promote a wider angle of 90° for increased soundstage width and envelopment. With myHRTF Personalized Filters you can switch to the wide angle by mouse click and many recordings sound better this way.
Crosstalk-free Stereo
In speaker-based sound reproduction each ear receives the sound from both left and right speakers, referred to as stereo crosstalk. Actually, many recordings sound better without stereo crosstalk.
With myHRTF Personalized Filters you can switch this crosstalk off by mouse click. For suitable recordings, this provides for a wider and deeper soundstage with significantly more immersion.
Speaker Setups
From mono to 9.1.4, see details here.
Concert Hall Acoustics
Stereo sound reproduction in typical listening rooms fails to create the sense of space and envelopment that can be experienced in concert halls. myHRTF Personalized Filters add this spaciousness and envelopment to the music and turn your headphones into a recital or concert hall by mouse click.
Configuration Files
In principle, myHRTF Personalized Filters are compatible with virtually all software applications that support convolution. For ease of use, specific filter sets and configuration files are provided for the following products:
Media players: HQ Player, JRiver MC and Roon
EQ software: Equalizer APO
Plugins: Convology XT, Hang Loose Convolver
Specifications
Frequency range: equalized down to 10 Hz, except RAAL SR1A/B and Hifiman JADE 2 (30 Hz)
Sampling rates: 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192 and 352.8 kHz
File format: standard 32 bit float .wav files
Filter latency: approx. 100 ms (filters for music), <1 ms (filters for TV and gaming)
- Free from frequency response errors*
- Ultra-low non-linear distortion*
- Superior maximum sound pressure level*
- Constant directivity without lobing errors*
- Virtually perfect stereo symmetry*
- Superior transient response*
- Fullrange, free from crossover distortion
- Free from baffle edge diffraction
- 42 m² room with perfect symmetry*
- Free from flutter echos, room modes etc.*
- Free from strong reflections within 20 ms*
- Free from room reflections in the first 5 ms
- Reflections without any tonal coloration
- Reflections from favorable directions only
- LOC parameter in line with Griesinger
- Beneficial lateral reflections after 20 ms
- Perfectly diffuse reverberation
- Reverb. decay in line with Griesinger
- Reverberation time (above 200 Hz):
- approx. 270 ms (studio)*
- approx. 1.6 s (recital hall)
- approx. 1.9 s (concert hall)
*) In line with Rec. ITU-R BS.1116-3 or better, partially depending on headphones.