AES Berlin 2014
Workshop W13
Monday, April 28, 13:30 — 15:30 (Estrel Hall C2)
W13 - How Do We Make the Sound for Headphones?
Chair:Toru Kamekawa, Tokyo University of the Arts - Adachi-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Panelists:
Bob DeMaa, DTS, Inc. - Santa Monica, CA, USA
Sean Olive, Harman International - Northridge, CA, USA
Ville Pulkki, Aalto University - Espoo, Finland; Technical University of Denmark - Denmark
Bob Schulein, RBS Consultants - Schaumburg, IL, USA
Abstract:
Although the headphones listening became popular with the advent of portable audio playback systems such as Walkman and iPod, most of the music production are done using traditional loudspeaker systems. With this discrepancy in mind, the workshop will discuss following points: What is the difference between headphone listening and loudspeaker listening? Can we make the suitable sound for headphone listening through loudspeaker playback? Whether we should change the recording technique to adapt headphone listening? How a dummy head or HRTF technique used in actual recording? Panelists will introduce actual examples and discuss how we make the sound for headphones playback.
 | This session is presented in association with the AES Technical Committee on Loudspeakers and Headphones and AES Technical Committee on Recording Technology and Practices |
