Yea, so there is a sanity check you guys can do if you are questioning whether the processing is actually working right and giving you a big advantage. Record yourself and have a continuous sound positioned in front of you, then rotate clockwise. Then have the sound behind you and rotate...

Does the vented nature of the fd5 or fd3 make it a good choice to use while snacking? Eg, you can bite into an apple and it isn't unusually loud due to occlusion of the ears?

Another possible option is to try to optimize the noise level in your environment. Turn off the AC when you are using headphones, have quiet computer fans, get some noise dampening stuff for the walls etc.

yea, it's pretty depressing to see a lot of people using stereo. It's like watching people en masse all fail a marshmallow test, where they won't trade some short term unfamiliarity for long term better directionality.

Yea, front and back don't work well on stereo. You have to rotate to be able to tell the difference in those directions on stereo, and even then, there may be dead spots where it is just ambiguous. When you convert 7.1 audio to binaural audio for headphones, then the difference between front and...

iirc, only the hud runs at 4k. The actual game runs around 1080p in performance mode. I would be concerned about variable refresh support though with that adapter.

The power output determines the volume of the headphone. Even if you get more power with high gain, you will lower the power with the volume control to the same level. So only use it if you are close to maxing out the volume dial on low gain. It's sorta like switching gears on a manual...

I had a change of heart on the noise cancelling. I figure the more fun project to embark on is to change the pc cooling to make it quieter.

Well, yea, I noticed that for music with my hd6xx, noise isn't an issue, because music basically has no dynamic range. Like, you aren't going to notice ambient noise if the audio is constantly loud. However, for games and videos, I think fan noise may be a significant bottleneck. Yea, I was...

I'm thinking about picking up some noise cancelling headphones on a whim. My computer is quiet, but not inaudible. But the noise is low frequencies from 140mm fans, so I figure it should cancel really well. Has anyone done this? Will it work like I'm imagining?

Have you checked this with more sensitive headphones and lower ps5 system volume?

Does the console itself have a volume setting? Can you check if it goes away at lower volumes?

Yea, I'm not saying there is any technical reason why they couldn't have the feature. I'm saying there is some merit to having safeguards in place such that the ps5 only does the headphone processing if it can see that there are headphones attached. Considering the most common scenario is going...

A lot of people are complaining about how the ps5 only does binaural audio through the headphone jack or a uac1 device that gets detected as a usb headset. But tbh, to me, it sounds like a good system. Remember that binaural audio requires headphones to be used. With the current system, a user...

From the descriptions I'm reading, it may be that sony expects the games themselves to have more reverb, and that's why the 3d audio headphones option is seeming a little lackluster. Other than that, the audio itself needs to have high frequencies in them for the best results, and sometimes it...

How does waves nx handle the situation if you have a 2 channel dac? Does it create a 7.1 sound device?

It's been said already, but let me reiterate - you have to get the ps4 to output dolby digital 5.1, not lpcm.

That's desirable imo. The spatial cues you get from the headphone interacting with the outer ear help you locate the position of the headphone driver, not sounds in the game. I think one of the advantages of open headphones is the lack of resonances in the ear cup, which makes the sounds more of...

This is something I've been wondering recently as well. One of the advantages of iem is the passive noise reduction, which means you should be able to hear details better assuming you aren't in a perfectly quiet environment. And the audio processing seems like what is responsible for a lot of...

One of the first things I would try to solve noise problems is to use toslink instead of usb.

I just updated to windows 10 version 2004. It seems to have fixed a lot of spatial sound issues.

So what is the deal with windows 10 spatial sound options? My impression is that it really only works well for a select few games and isn't a substitute for standard virtual 7.1 at this time.

Yea, but at that point, you could just use any headphone. And there is some stiff competition from drop.

As Sony embraces the type of processing we have been advocating for over a decade now, it is a good time to sit back and enjoy some sweet vindication. Remember the countless forum posters who thought that the processing was a gimmick and that all you needed was open back headphones? And all the...

That audio is able to carry more spatial information than regular stereo audio because it is a binaural recording. That means it has special spatial cues baked into the audio. The purpose of devices like the gsx 1000 is to take surround sound and convert that to binaural audio, by adding the...