Headphone Dust, a new online platform dedicated to studio-quality immersive sound

[Blurmwood]

Headphone Dust

Headphone Dust

headphonedust.store

Hopefully this is the right section for this... I saw that Steven Wilson announced a new site where you can purchase file-based multichannel music releases, including uncompressed Dolby Atmos. There's a playback guide, which is nice because it seems like I'm going to need to learn a few things in order to play these on my home theater. "Definitive Digital Editions" are described as "virtual Blu-rays".

Edit... seems to be only his releases at the moment. I wonder if he'll expand to other artists soon.

 

[Power Pop 23]

Headphone Dust

Headphone Dust

headphonedust.store

Hopefully this is the right section for this... I saw that Steven Wilson announced a new site where you can purchase file-based multichannel music releases, including uncompressed Dolby Atmos. There's a playback guide, which is nice because it seems like I'm going to need to learn a few things in order to play these on my home theater. "Definitive Digital Editions" are described as "virtual Blu-rays".

Edit... seems to be only his releases at the moment. I wonder if he'll expand to other artists soon.

Apparently so, per this press release...

Steven Wilson launches Headphone Dust - a home for pristine high-res & immersive audio, making it more accessible than ever before.

Initial drop features Impossible Tightrope: Live in Madrid, an exclusive live album from The Overview Tour

headphonedust.substack.com

 

[jEDGEc0m]

I don't have surround/Atmos setup. But was keen enough for that Live recording from The Overview tour that is exclusively on "Headphone Dust". (...which i think is a very odd name for the store/site, considering it seems it's largely about multichannel immersive audio).

Anyway, incredibly early impressions of a very short and quick swap comparison on headphones listening to the Stereo version vs the Binaural version: I do not like the binaural . I will likely listen to the stereo version, even on headphones. I do like to use "Crossfeed" for headphone listening (but of course disabled it for playback of the Binaural version.).

Binaural low end/bass seems lacking, and the Stereo version seems to have great low end.

Would be interested in what others think. A bit disappointed. I thought a dedicated binaural version could have been really cool - will give it more of a try sometime. Maybe if i don't just A/B it with stereo, it will ok in its own right. But it might also just need a bass boost to my taste, perhaps.

 

[jEDGEc0m]

Steven Wilson's official youtube has a few full-song examples of the binaural mixes from headphone dust.
this song as an example...

Someone comments "So desperately sad. And yet so serenely beautiful." I don't disagree.