Indrid Cold Battlefield has a binaural audio, apparently. I think the BBC replayed Doctor Who with binaural audio, too, so it seems to be creeping into the mainstream now and again.
For those unaware of the difference. Binaural is not exactly the same as stereo. It's recorded using a special device that more closely resembles your ears. This allows sounds to be recorded and played back in the same way they would sound if you were there in person (with minute delays between ears informing your brain the direction the sound is come from)
I'm using some JH16 Pro CIEMs to listen to this.. Crazy thing is, even though they aren't open cans, I'm getting more of a sense of realism through them, like I'm actually out in the storm rather than watching it from a window or doorway of my house.. The closeness of the rain falling "around me" is almost tangible and the rolling sound of thunder is incredibly lifelike. This is an awesome recording..
i swear that car wan't in the video and i had to double check because that came from exactly where i would hear it the way im facing my computer. thats so creepy.
Always loved thunder and lightning I'd sit outside Orin house with lights off. Brings up lots of feelings have thunder and lightning always make me reflect Wonder
Wonderful! Very relaxing. It was storming here the other morning, but the sounds were not nearly as clear as this (it was far away ): ). Thanks for the great recording.
my luck to have Sennheiser HD-414 open system... wasn't all that expensive but souds very convincingly aerial and lasted more than 10 years than my older AKG K240 Studio Monitor Diffusfeld entzerrt which fell apart after 8 years of usage... too bad
Comments here reflect that listeners are very impressed by the sound of thunder in this video. They should have heard, last July during the monsoon, a hugely loud clap of thunder so powerful that it shook the ground, making everyone jump, startled, and caused a car alarm to go off.
It's possible that some of the louder Thunder claps are not 'clipping', instead are overloading the front end of the mic's. Actually hitting the mic's diaphragm. In which case it doesn't matter what you set the levels at, the distortion occurs at source.
Around the 10:00 point, I started to get really paranoid, convinced that at any moment the creepy whisper of a little girl would appear right next to my ear after I'd been so lulled by the storm. I half-wanted it to happen, just to get rid of the apprehension of waiting.
Excellent best binaural storm I can find. (looking for thunder/no rain) this is close enough and really great sounding:) Is there a way I can dl a flac or wav of this?
***** Well it sounds decent on my T1, i would suspect the T70 would be similar. Also my recommendation is go for the T90 and a A20 headphone amp. that's the best combination i was able to find for that headphone. i have not tested that with the T70 yet though. Also if you go for a T70 or T90 your going to need a good DAC as well, they are unforgiving in that regard. If you relay want a closed back headphone, then i can also recommend the Audeze EL8 closed back edition, its quite good, and almost sound like a open back headphone while being a closed back one. Also if your on a tight budget, go for the DT880 600ohm edition, its a very good headphone for the price, but it will need a decent amp and dac as well. I recommend getting the Schiit Magn Modi stack.
kilspeed111 It's actually very plausible, see Flac or Free Lossless Audio Codec sounds more hollow because of a higher Dynamic Range, same with Vinyl Flacs. But Vinyls have an even bigger dynamic range, most common is 24Bit_96Hz whereas normal flacs are 16Bit. I don't know why you're so mad haha!
Jeremy10001000 Exactly. But this dynamic range is completely out of our hearing range. And please, don't even get started on 16 bit vs 24 bit and 44.1khz vs 192khz. I have the most nittpicky headphone ever created, the sennheiser HD800, along with a very nittpicky dac+amp (Schiit modi + schiit asgard, known for their precision) and no one has succesfully told flac and 320kbps mp3 apart. Heck, only a few managed to tell 128kbps and flac apart. I haven't seen anyone who could even tell 192kbps and flac apart, although I do know that's possible. 256kbps vs flac is BS, 320kbps vs flac is even bigger BS. 16 bit vs 24 bit is HUGE BS. What's next? Are you going to buy those "brilliant pebbles" to place them next to your 'premium' audioquest cable? I've had this discussion way too many times with people. And every single time, I've been correct. I've invited them over to my place and allowed them to try it on my system. No one succeeded. Heck, I even went to some peoples places because they said they could tell it apart more easily on their speakers. Obviously, they failed too. It's all placebo. You're just making yourself look stupid, so please stop. I bet you can't even finish the Philips goldenears test. I'm not mad, by the way. I'm laughing my ass off that there's still people gullible enough to fall for this stupid shit. Even worse than the idiots buying razer and beats.
metal571/Term1naLFurY ooh that's a brilliant set. I'm looking at getting some better AKGs. These ones are really good especially considering the price but I didn't know when I ordered that they were supra-aural, not circum-aural.
jordanzish The 240s are quite light on the bass, have warmed up low mids and upper bass, have a sense of air but not quite the upper treble detail of my DT880s, and they have a treble spike right at around 10k which adds a shimmer to the sound. mids are very flat and non-fatiguing. The overall sound comes across as a slow groove with some glossy brightness up top. Quite a nice sounding headphone and not a bad head stage either. They're circumaural but they are definitely on the smaller size in terms of earcups. If you get the 240 MK II the velour pads are a lot more comfy. Hope that helps. I haven't heard the K701/Q701 but from what I hear it is a mile better and more in line with my reference-class grade DT880s.
metal571/Term1naLFurY I have the Q701s, and while I havent heard any other audiophile grade headphones, I find these have plenty of Bass on tap, depending on the recording and your amp setup. Im using a simple Schiit Magni amp and the first thunder in this recording was ROARING, sounds very life like. Love these binaural recordings.
This quality of recording can easily be made with a condensor microphone with vibration dampeners, you can pick up a pretty nice one for around $100. But you would need two for binaural/stereo recording. There are other recording devices that simulate sitting recording as if from within a human ear, but they're mostly a gimmick that just applies a very slight accoustic change to the audio being recorded, something a software filter could simulate. RU-vid stereo audio can only have two linear tracks so there's nothing unique other than the accoustic environment the microphone resided in when recording, but if it were a 6 or 8 channel recording played back on a 6 or 8 channel (5.1/7.1) headset that'd be pretty neat.
+Pietprecies 01 Because the ears and brain are capable of detecting the direction of sound on a horizontal plane relative to the head. Close your eyes and you will still be able to know if a sound is coming from in front of you or behind you, left or right.
+TheEdgarthefish Sorry, I meant to indicate it is possible to emulate with software when you have the appropriate number of microphones. For example, 8 channel audio would be best when recorded with 8 microphones, then the audio can be processed to emulate how the sound would bounce before it's picked up inside the ear drum since you have enough information to create such a algorithm. The more input channels the better, even if there's less output or result channels. The trick of course being analyzing a sound across all microphones to try to detect the direction of the sound waves, without knowing the direction you couldn't possibly translate it to simulate how the ear would receive it.
