Headphone holographic sound

Listen to this demo via some half decent headphones, to hear sounds above, below and even behind you. Strange sensation....


http://www.2loop.com/hsound.html

 

Pink Floyd used Holophonics on The Final Cut back in the early 80s. There's a bit in it where you are in a bar. Shut your eyes and the bar is all around you in 3D sound - glasses clinking, people chatting, people playing pool. As a 15 year old who had just acquired a Sony Walkman II, I was very,very impressed.

 

And talking of Floyd... There is an interesting White paper on the Harman website by Dr Floyd E Toole, part 2 is all about the science of binaural audio and creating effective illusions of 3D space on headphone.

http://www.harman.com/wp/pdf/HowManyChannels.pdf

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Floyd E Toole ?? Is that really his real name?? Cool :MILD: