Smyth Realiser A8 : a sound-room over headphones
Wednesday April 15, 2009. 11:29 AM | Audio Hardware |
It achieves this by capturing the binaural acoustic signature of the target loudspeakers, in a real playback environment, for each individual listener.
· Captures the impulse response data of real sound-rooms
· Any sound-room can potentially be measured and re-created
· Generates up to eight loudspeakers simultaneously in any location
· Stores multiple sound-rooms and loudspeaker configurations
· Fully integrated head-tracking
· Fully integrated IR measurement hardware and software
Applications
· Workstation monitoring of 5.1-channel or 7.1-channel surround sound
· On-location stereo and multi-channel recording
· Acoustic analysis and comparison
· Monitoring non-standard audio and speaker formats
· Sound design for games
Technical summary
· 8-ch analogue input and output (unbalanced, phono, -10dBV ref)
· 2-ch headphone output, analogue (2) and digital
· 2-ch microphone input, fixed gain, fixed 5V phantom power
· RS232 head-tracker data input
· SD card for up- and down-loading room-speaker responses
Available now. Price US$3000 ex shipping, complete with measurement microphones, head-tracker and Stax headphones+amp (Basic Stax set).
Being demonstrated at CanJam 2009, Hilton Hotel at LAX in Los Angeles, May 30th and 31st 2009.
Barry Rudolf had a demo of an early prototype from a few years ago, you can read its comments at :
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