Holophonic Sounds

drewfx1
 

Zuccarelli states that the human auditory system is a sound emitter, producing a reference sound that combines with incoming sound to form an interference pattern inside the ear. 

 

The effects achieved may be comparable to traditional binaural recording using mannequin heads, or via more traditional 3D audio techniques via HRTFs. There is no evidence, nor studies conducted, to indicate that the holophonic technique is substantially different from or superior to these methods, nor has Zuccarelli ever published his technique, nor has he allowed independent study of the results. The only available publication is a patent,[4] which describes a fairly typical dummy-head binaural recording.

 
 

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drewfx1
They didn't sound more pleasing to me; they sounded weird in an unpleasant way.
 
But if you listen to a few of the HRTF processed samples I linked to above - which are all the same 3D panning but processed for different people - some of them sound really weird at different pan positions vs. others.
 
So anything processed using various 3D techniques probably won't sound as weird and processed to some as it does to others.
 
The HRTF's are based on the shape of one's ears, head and body and how they affect sound arriving from different directions. Personally I've never had much luck with such things, but my explanation is that it must be because the shape of my ears, head and body are so far above average.