Hi guys i have a little question for Redscape users:
In comparison to stock sound of your headphones (Without any virtualization or EQ) does Redscape sounds a little muffled in the mids and highs?
I remember it sounded that way for me when i was using the app a while ago.
Now i'm not sure if this is due to my headphones not responding very well to the virtualization(ISK HF 2010 rebrand) or the virtualization itself was intended to be this way since is further away and very out of the head. (Yeah i played with that head width slider in the anatomy customization settings)
Not that I notice. I'm playing with it right now and I don't feel like they are muffled. Now of course I can't really do a fast A/B test with it because you have to stop the audio, shut down Redscape (since it takes exclusive control), switch Windows to output directly to the RME and then fire it back up but to me it sounds correct. Now the sound IS different, but in the general way that headphones have that more intimate sound.
Redscape doesn't sound any more muffled than my speakers. If you are used to headphones, I can see how the sound might be strange, but if you are used to speakers it sounds more or less "correct" compared to them.
This is using HD800S headphones with Oratory's corrections on my ADI 2.
As for the Soundblaster X4... I think I'm probably going to send it back. I can't find the ability to adjust the level of the SXFI, perhaps that isn't on this model. It is either on or off, and when on many of the other customizations are disabled (presumable because the DSP is busy doing the HRTF). There is a surround setting that can be used when it is off, but it doesn't really do much for me.
Also I got my optical cable today and it turns out you can't output the SXFI virtualizations over optical, so I can't route them in to the ADI-2 for equalization. Now not that I couldn't get something else to equalize for the phones, but this works well and I already have it.
I'm just not seeing it as being a winner VS Redscape (which also has an integrated PEQ, if I wanted). Particularly since it doesn't do ASIO. I'm not sure if I'm missing something but it just hasn't been that impressive.