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What we call cross-talk is a natural element of hearing individual sources, and one of the features enabling us to localise. Question is, if it’s always a benign mechanism, e.g. considering reproduction of composite content?
For those of us going to AES in NYC next month, David Griesinger will be playing excellent binaural recordings using ultra-nearfield monitoring with cross-talk cancellation; which is an elegant way of separating humanisation in recording from personalisation in reproduction. I suggest you go listen and make up your own mind.
As I'm not going to be at the AES, I'd love to hear some feedback from those who will be there. And what does ultra-nearfiled monitoring mean? Is it just sitting very close to the speakers? Or even closer, speakers sitting inside one's ears?
I've played around with crosstalk cancelation in a normal listening position speaker set up. This wasn't a huge improvement but noticeable, and took a few iterations with the folks producing these filters (@Home Audio Fidelity ) to get it just right. Thierry worked with me to troubleshoot and improve the convolution filters until they produced a noticeable improvement on well-recorded, acoustic music. IIRC, the amount of cross-talk cancellation produced by these filters at the listening position was not much more than 10%. But these were not individualized, other than being configured for the proper relative position of the speakers to the listening position.