Binaural Technique – Past and Present
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The main idea of binaural technique is to reproduce the complete auditive experience of a human listener. In theory, this is achieved by recording and reproducing the two signals at the listener’s left and right eardrum. In binaural technology, first steps were made in the 1880s especially in the field of recordings. Over the decades this technology has evolved significantly. However, some challenges related to achieving an exact auditory replication remain. Nowadays, an artificial head is used on the recording side, which can be regarded as a good approximation of the human head. On the reproduction side, different techniques for different applications exist. Two of them are headphone reproduction and the reproduction of binaural signals using loudspeakers.
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