Features and Specifications

myHRTF Personalized Filters contain various virtual acoustic spaces, speaker distances and angles plus crosstalk-free filters for stereo. In addition, zero latency filters are provided for movies, tv and gaming.

Room Acoustics and Speaker Distances

- Medium sized control room, 1 m distance
- Large mastering studio, 3 m distance
- Concert hall

Supported Speaker Angles

- Standard 60° for the most solid phantom center
- Wide 90° for a much wider soundstage but slightly less solid phantom center

Crosstalk Cancellation

Perfect crosstalk-free sound reproduction by mouse click

Supported Speaker Setups

- Stereo
- Surround 5.1 and 7.1 (surround option)
- Dolby Atmos up to 9.1.6 (immersive option)
- Support of both overhead and height speakers (immersive option)
- AURO 3D up to 12.1 and MDG 2+2+2 (immersive option)

Software Specific Filter Sets

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: foobar2000, HQ Player, JRiver MC and roon
- EQ software: Equalizer APO, Hang Loose Convolver
- Plugins: X-MCFX, SPARTA Binauraliser

Headtracking

myHRTF Personalized SOFA file (immersive option) for plugins in combination with suitable headtrackers as described here.

Specifications

Frequency range: equalized from 10 Hz to 22 kHz
Sampling rates: 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4 and 192 kHz
File format: standard 32 bit float .wav files, SOFA file as option
Filter latency: approx. 50 ms (music filters), zero (latency-free filters)

Virtual speakers:
- Equalized to 10 Hz without any resonances whatsoever
- Constant directivity in line with Olive and Toole
- Fullrange point source
- Distortion below 1% typ. (depending on headphone model)

Virtual acoustics:
- Perfect room acoustics without any early or strong reflections, resonances and flutter echos
- Reflection-free zone: all reflections within the first 20 ms remain 20 dB below the direct sound
- Reverberation time RT60 (approx.): xxx ms (control room), xxx ms (mastering studio), x s (concert hall), x s (cathedral)
- Localization parameter LOC: 6.3 dB (control room), 4.2 dB (mastering studio, concert hall and cathedral), in line with Griesinger
- Room target curve in line with Olive and Toole
- Beneficial lateral reflections after 20 ms
- Perfectly diffuse reverberation