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Oh,

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I have been waiting for this for to

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arrive for a while. Oh, I hope it didn't

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break. If it broke, I'm going to be

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upset. All right.

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>> Hi.

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>> So, uh well, I hope I hope the box

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wasn't too uncomfy. We didn't really

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have the budget for flights, but you're

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you're certainly getting the uh the

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proper British weather at the moment.

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>> Yeah. Well, you know, this is uh this is

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the kind of weather that I I get up for

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in the morning, you know. Hey, there's a

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hitchhiker right here.

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>> Hitchhiker.

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>> Yeah.

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>> Let's let's see where he's going.

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>> Where are you going?

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>> Anywhere without 10 kilohz, man.

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>> We got uh we got space. Do you want to

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bring him?

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>> Yeah, why not?

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>> Hop in, man.

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run.

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>> All right, let's uh we're we're going

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somewhere where there's there's plenty

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of uh acoustic treatment, so you should

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you should be all right.

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>> Yeah,

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>> that sounds good.

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>> So, I was thinking one thing though.

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>> Yeah,

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>> we could probably squeeze another like

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reviewer in if we could maybe find one.

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>> Yeah, but it's hard to find one. Like

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>> we're not too far from release at least.

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Okay.

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>> We could they might have some in stock.

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>> Okay.

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>> Should we go knock one in stock?

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>> I think that makes sense. I mean, as

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long as they like I don't know. We're

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three deep already. We got to make sure

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they fit.

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>> Yeah.

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>> Yeah. We'll have to get one that's

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compact.

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>> Yeah, we got a small one.

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>> Okay. All right. Well, let's go check

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out lease.

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>> Okay.

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>> Hello.

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>> Hello, sir.

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>> Hi.

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>> We have a little bit of an issue. Do you

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have any reviewers in stock at the

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moment?

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Um, let me check. I think we might have

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>> Okay. Do you mind if we come in?

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>> Yeah, thank you.

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>> Yeah, let me let me just check.

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>> Nice space here.

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>> This is here. No, it's not here.

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>> Oh, yeah.

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>> Oh, well, we have this one.

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>> Ah, excellent.

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>> But yeah, the battery is kind of dead,

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so you might have to charge them.

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>> No, that's fine. We can pick up some

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battery somewhere.

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>> All right.

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>> He's Yeah, he looks pretty pretty

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compacted, too. This is the new one,

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right? Yeah, it's it's a it's a good

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size model.

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>> Awesome. Okay. Yeah, we'll we'll take

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him. Thank you.

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>> Awesome.

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>> It's actually going to be

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>> That's going in. Wait, you recorded

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this?

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>> Yeah, it is recording.

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So, we are currently all here in warm

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and sunny UK. You guys are definitely

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experiencing proper British weather at

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the moment.

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>> Yeah, we we've inflicted ourselves upon

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you and the weather has accommodated.

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>> Yes. And uh why why is it that you guys

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are here?

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>> Uh you know, mostly the weather, just

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enjoy, you know, the UK in February,

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>> but also some headphone related stuff.

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>> Maybe if we're lucky.

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>> If we can get round to it.

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>> Yeah, if we can get round to it.

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>> Yeah. Yeah. The goal is to actually go

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to a lab and get our HRTFS. Now, that's

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people are like, "What what is that?

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What is an HRTF? Should we talk about

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that?"

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>> I mean, very basic. It's the way our

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heads and ears affect incoming sound.

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Uh, and we need to know that stuff for

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uh for the project which we're embarking

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on, which is uh using in-ear

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microphones.

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>> So, that is one of the key missing

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pieces. It's the missing link between

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what we see on a graph and what we hear.

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It's what's actually going on at our own

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eardrums when we're listening to these

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products because the measurements that

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we take that we all love, they're done

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on industry standard measurement

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equipment and we're not actually

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experiencing the picture that we get

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from the graph done on industry standard

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measurement equipment. So what we get

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with this ideally is a way to understand

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that picture on our own heads with our

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own ears. And there's a few other pretty

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interesting things that this is going to

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allow us to do. The biggest thing

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obviously is being able to measure

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headphones on our own head. Not just on

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the 5128, not just on the grass, but

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seeing how headphones are actually

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performing on us so that when we're

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reviewing headphones, we don't have to

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do that. Well, this is how it measures

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on a 5128, but I don't actually hear

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that 6 kHz peak or for me it's here

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instead or something. It's just no, this

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is how it's behaving on my head. And we

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can show that to you. But also, that

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means that then if we go to something

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like a can jam or any kind of meetup or

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anything like that, we can just sit down

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and measure our headphone as long as we

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ourselves are there. which is pretty

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exciting

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>> and I'm also excited for being able to

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understand better the whole question of

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technicalities right people like I can't

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tell you how many times like every week

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I have I weigh

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>> Cameron looks at me

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>> I I I I weigh into the trenches where

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people are like but what about the

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technicalities and and in so many ways

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this this will help illuminate why we

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talk about this in terms of frequency

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response at the eardrum where a lot of

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people are unable to see how that may

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differ from what they're used to

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understanding frequency response as.

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>> Yeah. At least that's the hope. We're

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hoping that this can help demystify both

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what is contributing to a technicality

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uh but also like

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>> why one of us may hear the

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technicalities different from one of the

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others. Yeah.

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>> And and to be clear, this these are all

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open questions, right? By no means is

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this uh we're going to do this so we can

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say we told you so. Maybe maybe we can,

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maybe we can.

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>> We don't know,

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>> but we legitimately do not know. And

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that's why it's important to to do stuff

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like this. It's called science, by the

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way.

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>> So, I guess the question that a lot of

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people watching are going to have is,

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well, why did you guys need to come to

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the UK to do this? Why can't you just

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put some mics in your ears and measure

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headphones like that? What is it that

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we're actually doing that is just

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different from onhead measurements that

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you could theoretically do already?

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>> Yeah. So, it's not that we couldn't do

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something like this. It's just it would

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be so expensive and prohibitive

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time-wise to put together a way that we

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could all get this data that is

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comparable. So, what we're going to be

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doing is going to this lab at the

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Imperial College of London, and they

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have an arc of speakers in a

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well-treated space that can rotate

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around us. So, we're going to be able to

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get a full directional capture of all of

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these different directions around us.

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So, we can get what we call the diffuse

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field, HRTF, um, which is basically the

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average of all, uh, positions of a sound

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source, uh, because that's what we need

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to evaluate headphones, uh, and

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headphone measurements. But it's not

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something that's easy to do on our own.

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So we did have to come to a lab that is

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already set up to do that. So we could

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get that done in a way that is

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equivalent for all of us.

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>> And then this much like we do with

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existing measurements for things like

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the 5128 allows us to then basically

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subtract most of the effects of how our

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head is modifying things to show just

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what the headphone is doing. How is the

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headphone different from sounds that

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would be actual neutral uh you know

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coming to our heads.

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>> I always think of it as like it's kind

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of like microphone calibration. It's

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just that instead of for a microphone,

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it's for our heads.

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>> Yeah.

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>> Yeah.

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>> We areic calibrating our heads.

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>> Yeah.

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>> But obviously, whilst you guys have been

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in the UK, we've not uh just been doing

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lab stuff.

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>> We uh we went out to Winchester today

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and saw some very old buildings, some of

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which are quite a bit older than the

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United States.

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>> This This is us um North Americans

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enjoying a culture for once.

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>> That culture being gray rainy.

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>> Yeah. Gray gray rainy. But it's

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something

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>> you're so happy.

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>> Look, look at the smell on his face that

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you'll never see from headphones.

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>> No headphone has ever made this man this

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happy.

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>> Yeah,

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>> I loved it. I I could live there. It was

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uh it was wonderful. It was nice and uh

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very sort of brown and rust colored,

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earth tones everywhere and uh overcast

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and delightful. I had a smile on my face

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the whole time.

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>> I mean, the cathedral in Winchester is

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about a thousand years old. So

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>> insane. I mean, I think a thousand years

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ago, if id seen that, I would probably

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become pretty religious if I wasn't

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already.

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>> Yeah.

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>> A thousand years ago.

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>> The marketing pitch is

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>> This is pretty compelling.

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>> What do you What do you reckon the RT60

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time of year is?

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>> Exactly. Yeah.

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>> And speaking of religious experiences,

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we did go to Nandos, an institution.

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>> It It really It really was. I mean, in

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Canada, we we do have Nandoses around,

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but here you walk in and it's like huge

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room. We We were the first people in

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there. It was super empty, but as soon

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as we got in, like 10 minutes later,

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entire place was was packed. It was

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legitimately like super good. I didn't

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even finish my meal. That's how big it

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was.

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>> Pizza time.

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>> Okay, we're trying uh Canadian eats

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British British snacks. But

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>> uh just wait till you try some pickled

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monster munch.

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>> This is monster munch.

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>> So there's a very fun Whoa, whoa, whoa.

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>> Punch. No, you don't like that.

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>> First, we're going to do munchy peas.

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piece. Got it.

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>> Oh, I actually like it.

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>> It's not bad.

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>> Happy.

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>> Yeah.

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>> I already tried it. It's definitely not

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bad, but it's like

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>> Yeah, there

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I like it.

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>> Got to get you a fish reaction.

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>> It's really good.

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>> We just picked up the whole thing.

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>> Oh, yeah.

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>> Oh, yeah. That's real good.

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>> I put a little bit of salt and I need

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spread some lemon, but that is very

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much.

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>> No.

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I could live here.

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>> What have the uh the headphones and

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stuff that you guys have tried so far

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here as well? Have you been uh

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>> Yeah, so that's the thing. We've been

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we've been in Cameron's studio for the

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last little bit.

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>> Started with the speakers. The speaker

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room is crazy.

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>> Oh my god. Yeah, we listened to

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Cameron's speaker setup yesterday and

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it's legit. Um for all of the people who

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are wondering, uh that room is pretty

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insane. And yeah, obviously you've done

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correction to iron out room modes in the

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bass and

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>> yeah,

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>> you can tell uh it's very immersive.

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>> I don't think any speaker system is

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complete or you're certainly not getting

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the most out of it if you're not doing

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any kind of

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>> remote.

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Yeah, hearing like a a speaker setup at

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a at a trade show or something like that

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is

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>> incomparable. I mean that the other big

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contributor is that you have two sub

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subs on there, right? Like most people a

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lot of people don't even add a sub which

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is crazy.

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>> No, which Yeah. I mean, well, firstly,

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like the acoustically optimal position

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for a fullrange speaker is almost never

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going to be the ideal position for a

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sub. Um, but then I'm also doing some

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silly stuff with uh like four deck

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channels and independent correction with

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proper crossovers, not just low passing

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the subs. I'll probably do a dedicated

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video on that at some point cuz it is a

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little bit of a wild setup, but well,

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hopefully you guys enjoyed it.

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>> Oh, yeah. No, the the the lengths you

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went were clearly worth it.

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It produces a very Andrew and I were

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both saying it's like a perfect mix of

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novel and correct

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>> like the the imaging presentation.

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>> The imaging was the coolest thing about

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it. Yeah.

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>> Yeah. But but it it's it's not crazy.

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It's just a very nicely deep well put

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together presentation and then the tone

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is just kind of like

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>> Yep.

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>> For me, the big takeaway in your system

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is the level of depth that that system

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was able to achieve was unreal. Like

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I've I've been to, you know, some audio

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shows in in Toronto and seen some pretty

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nice systems and the convincingness of

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the depth on this one was just something

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I hadn't hadn't heard before.

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>> Oh, I'm glad you guys enjoyed it. What

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about the uh headphones? I mean, you

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guys have tried most of the other stuff

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we I've got here already, but were there

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any ones?

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>> Well, we we tried the the Wi-Fi man.

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>> Yeah, the uh Wi-Fi the H1000 Wi-Fi and

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ARA Wi-Fi. What do you think of those? I

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was not as into them as some of the

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other hymns that I've heard.

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>> Um I can kind of I can see what they're

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going for and it's cool that it's we

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plug the wire in just to make it easier

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to use.

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>> Yeah.

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>> But it sounds kind of like a like a bit

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more V-shaped, like a bit more low end

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than what I'm used to like.

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>> Yeah, it is a little bit bassier than

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the normal H1000. Um which I did check

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and they're not doing any DSP or

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anything. So it is just uh differences

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in acoustic tuning, which is

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interesting. I kind of wish they could

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do some of that with uh with the

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original HG100 to be honest. We'll uh

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once we're done with the lab, we'll have

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to guess on head measurements and see

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what see what they say.

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>> Yeah. Uh were there any other headphones

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that you guys had heard before?

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>> Well, I've heard the composer before,

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but I did I did like it on Cameron

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System. It's it's a Z by the way. It's

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all the Z. No. Uh yeah, the the composer

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was was pretty good. We did some pad

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swapping. He has this um Z EQ box thing

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set up which was also pretty fun to to

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play around. Um, I heard the composer

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before at like at like a show.

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Apparently the amp I heard it off may or

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may not have some issues with like

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treble distortion on on this one. It's

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this one's pretty good. So, I was I was

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kind of surprised that Yeah, I quite

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like the setup.

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>> What do you guys think of the uh the

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Pudphones?

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>> It's fun.

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>> Super fun.

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>> Yeah.

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>> As typical with the Pudphone.

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Surprisingly balanced.

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>> They They look like they should be

12:51

beyond cursed and somehow they're not.

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>> No, they're super normal.

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>> Yeah. Which is crazy. like warm but yeah

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the the punchiness in the the bass

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especially the midbase is pretty nice

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>> but like zero texture though

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>> yeah the low and center mid pretty

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scooped it sounds like

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>> but the problem is you can't headbang on

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this

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>> no no no headbang on unfortunately

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>> also wait is oh it says golden sound

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>> oh that's that's tough

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>> so those are the ones you got to wear

13:18

for Zoom calls

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>> yeah yeah

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>> infinite aura

13:23

>> are you are you really headbanging

13:24

unless you chains rattling against the

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side of your face.

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>> But uh on that note, I guess we should

13:30

probably head into London Town and go do

13:32

some science.

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>> Yeah.

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>> Yeah.

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>> Time for science. Real science.

13:53

Do you uh fancy joining?

13:56

>> I don't think they're ready for my

13:57

ideas.

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>> I think I think uh audio is a cut of its

14:01

own already. So, we're culted out.

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All right. So, I am here with Neils at

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the Turret Lab in the UK. Why don't you

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tell me what it is that you guys do here

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and a bit about yourself?

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>> Yeah, sure. So, we're in the turret lab

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at the moment. My name is Neils. I'm a

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PhD student in the audio experience

14:34

design team and this is where we do most

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of our measurements. So we're in the

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HRTF measurement dome at the moment.

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This is where we record head related

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transfer functions. It's just one of the

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components of the work that we do in our

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lab. Um for those of you who don't know,

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HRTFs are the direction dependent way in

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which your body interacts with sound. We

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can capture that representation and

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apply it to new sound and that'll make

14:59

it sound as if it was coming from that

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location that we measured. This is the

15:02

those are the principles of spatial

15:04

audio and it's um technology that's used

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in virtual reality hearing devices uh

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and consumer spatial audio as well.

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>> What's the the process like going

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through getting your HRTF captured with

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this system here? I mean, we're in this

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massive dome with a ton of acoustic

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material everywhere.

15:22

>> Yeah. What's what's the process like?

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>> Yeah, so it's a it's a long but

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relatively short process. So the whole

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um system whole measurement takes around

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45 minutes. We start with some simple

15:34

calibration and some prepping for

15:36

example tying your hair back and

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unluding your pinner and your ears um so

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that we don't have any unnecessary

15:43

interference. Then we align you with

15:46

each plane, horizontal plane um with the

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lasers. And then we take the headphone

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transfer function. So we play some sign

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sweeps um through both headphones and we

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can calculate the inverse filter. And

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then the proper measurement starts. And

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this involves sitting in the chair. We

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play bunch of sign sweeps from our

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measurement arc. Here we have a 5°

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horizontal increment. And then the the

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chair rotates. So instead of the arc

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rotating, which would be really

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cumbersome, the chair rotates um while

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you're sitting in it. And at five degree

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intervals, we take a the whole

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measurement system, the all

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measurements. Again, we repeat this

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until you're at 180° and then you have

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your 360° HRTF. After the HRTF

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measurements, we also take a

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highfidelity 3D scan and a lower

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resolution photo photoggramometry. Uh

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these are really important. So with a 3D

16:37

scan, we can capture your your

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morphology in 3D. And with a

16:40

photoggramometry, we take pictures with

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an iPhone or with a with a phone in

16:45

10°ree increments. So there's these

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various degrees of resolution. We have

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very low um resolution um 2D images with

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the iPhone. We have a high fidelity 3D

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scan with the 3D scanner. And then we

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have the real acoustic measurements. One

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big application in the field or one big

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research area is how can we generate

17:02

your own individual HRTF or estimate it

17:05

from measurements that aren't acoustic

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because this lab is not very accessible.

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Everyone can't have their own HRTF

17:12

measured. So can we go from a photo of

17:15

your ear for example to a full HRTF? If

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we can go from a photo of your ear to a

17:20

full HRTF, can we go from the 3D scan um

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of your ear to a HRTF or vice versa? and

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how do the qualities of those HRTFs

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vary? And the great thing is because

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we're doing it all in the same room, we

17:32

can compare those simulated HRTFs to the

17:34

real acoustically measured ones and a

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very good idea of how how good these

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individualization approaches or

17:40

simulation methods are compared to the

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real thing.

17:59

You know, I had to do it to him.

18:26

All right. So, we are back from London.

18:29

It's been quite the adventure.

18:30

>> It was uh it was a little bit more of a

18:32

day than we thought it was going to be.

18:34

I think uh we kind of had the assumption

18:35

that we were going to go in, get uh get

18:37

span around in a chair, come out with

18:39

some HRTFs, and that that that would be

18:40

kind of it. We put some headwinds on our

18:42

heads and measure them. Te

18:43

>> technically that did happen.

18:44

>> Technically it happened. Um

18:47

>> just not in the order necessarily.

18:49

>> Yeah. not necessarily in the order.

18:50

Luckily, we've got Griffin here doing a

18:52

bunch of wizardry to make sense of the

18:54

data uh and make sure that things came

18:56

out in the right way. And today, we've

18:58

been doing a little bit of testing uh

19:00

and so we wanted to talk about that a

19:01

little bit. Now, you should get

19:02

subscribed because most of that is going

19:04

to come in a second video, but let's uh

19:06

let's quickly go through. I mean, we

19:08

went to the lab and we'd seen photos of

19:11

it. We knew what we were in for, but I

19:13

think all of us walked in and kind of

19:14

went, "Wo!"

19:15

>> Yeah. It's a huge huge dome at the

19:18

Imperial College of London in the sort

19:20

of the Dyson Engineering.

19:21

>> The Dyson Engineer School of

19:23

Engineering.

19:23

>> Dyson Engineering Zone.

19:25

>> The Dyson School of Design and

19:27

Engineering

19:27

>> zone. The Dyson zone. We went to the

19:29

Dyson zone and we went to this enormous

19:31

>> turret type thing as as it is described.

19:35

>> But it's kind of weird because you look

19:36

at it from the outside and it's like

19:38

>> you would never suspect that there is

19:40

almost anoy chamber in that.

19:42

>> Yes. In this tower.

19:43

>> Yeah. at the top of literally at the top

19:45

of this this tower. Yeah.

19:46

>> Uh and it's quite quite cramped in

19:47

there. They've managed to pack this uh m

19:49

massive spherical array.

19:51

>> It was it was very impressive. And we

19:53

spoke to Neil's a little bit about some

19:54

of the other work that they do too

19:55

because they don't just uh take in

19:57

headphone reviewers looking to play with

19:59

fancy toys and get their heads measured.

20:01

>> Yeah.

20:01

>> Yeah. That doesn't that doesn't uh get

20:03

much research funding or anything.

20:04

>> No, no, not really.

20:05

>> So they Yeah, they have a lot of other

20:07

uh frankly just more complex uh projects

20:10

that they are working on. Uh it was

20:12

really cool to talk to him.

20:13

>> Folks, uh who are used to using

20:15

headphone measurements in the audio

20:17

communities, uh they uh they may not

20:20

realize this, but a lot of the those

20:22

measurements are useful because of the

20:24

work that you guys have done here.

20:26

>> Um and with the Sonic database.

20:29

>> Yeah. Um so as part of the measurement

20:31

system, as part of the HRTF system, we

20:33

also take the calculate the transfer

20:36

functions, individual transfer functions

20:37

of the headphones to the user. And then

20:39

you can use these individual functions

20:41

to compensate for any coloration that

20:43

the headphone may be applying. Now the

20:45

HRTFS that we generate are also useful

20:48

for um investigating differences between

20:50

different headphone sets. For example,

20:53

could certain headphones provide

20:55

beneficial uh characteristics for

20:57

localization? For example, the Sonic

20:59

database is one of one of the largest

21:01

open source HRTF databases. We have

21:04

almost 400 participants and it grows

21:06

every day and we can have a look at how

21:09

morphological variations affect um the

21:12

way that sound interacts with you.

21:14

>> So, shout out to Neil who helped us with

21:15

this.

21:16

>> Without spoiling too much, what uh what

21:19

do you want to tell them about what

21:20

we've done since getting back and doing

21:23

some fun testing? Actually, okay. We

21:24

should cried. Mostly cried, but we

21:26

should tell him about the auto EQ thing

21:28

because I think that's just We'll have a

21:29

we'll have a video on the auto EQ thing

21:31

because well, I think we should save

21:33

that for the for the next video. A

21:35

little bit. Go on. So, once we

21:37

effectively turned our heads into

21:38

microphones and got our HRTFs done, we

21:42

decided to put auto EQ to the test. We

21:45

took Cameron and put some headphones on

21:47

his head and and applied an auto EQ

21:49

profile uh to match the Harman target

21:52

and then showed

21:54

what the result was for his actual head.

21:57

And the results will shock you.

21:59

>> Yeah. Let's just say uh we didn't get a

22:01

Harmon result, neither on your head.

22:03

>> No. Yeah. Well, actually, so, so to me,

22:06

it's actually it's it's fascinating

22:07

because it's it's a perfect explanation

22:08

for why I typically find Harmon tuning

22:12

is a little bit shouty because it turns

22:14

out that what's going on is that when

22:16

something is tuned to Harmon on my head,

22:18

it is quite a bit more exaggerated in

22:21

that sort of like ear gain area.

22:24

>> Yeah. Yeah. Right.

22:24

>> But I I think the other thing is that

22:25

you know people fuss about headphone

22:28

frequency responses being super smooth

22:29

and adherent to the Harmon target when

22:31

all all the results we did showed that

22:34

actually on any of our individual heads

22:35

to get to the Harmon target it had to be

22:37

quite significantly different and

22:39

jaggedy. Yeah.

22:40

>> To the point where if you look at it

22:41

against you know just plotted against

22:42

the Harmon curve if you saw that

22:44

measurement online you'd think oh that's

22:46

a terrible looking headphone.

22:47

>> Yeah. And then the inverse if you got it

22:48

to to perceptually be like the Harman

22:50

target, it would not measure anything

22:52

like that on a on a on a grass or

22:53

>> Yeah.

22:54

>> No. Yeah, we did the opposite as well.

22:55

So yeah, what stay tuned for part two

22:57

because that video is going to be quite

22:58

interesting.

22:59

>> Yeah.

22:59

>> So obviously you've been in the UK for a

23:01

week now.

23:02

>> Um out of all all the things that you

23:04

guys have gotten up to, what would you

23:06

say is something that stands out? What

23:08

have you what has had you smiling?

23:09

>> I mean so not counting the turret lab

23:12

because that was I think for most of us

23:14

the highlight of the trip. Um, I had

23:16

been to London one time before, but it

23:18

was 70° and sunny, so I felt kind of

23:21

robbed of the quintessential London

23:23

experience. Um, so the day that Caleb,

23:26

you and I got to go to London and

23:28

explore uh felt like I was uh I was

23:31

fulfilling something that I had uh not

23:33

had a chance to really experience.

23:36

>> We are walking through a very dank, wet,

23:39

rainy street and it it just feels right.

23:42

It just feels correct. And yeah, we saw

23:45

a bunch of stuff. We walked along the

23:46

temps. We saw the Big Ben. We saw the

23:48

Houses of Parliament. We saw Westminster

23:50

Abbey. We saw Buckingham Palace.

23:52

>> Quite a bit of time in the British

23:54

Museum looking at all the stuff that

23:55

we'd stolen. Sorry about that.

23:56

>> Yeah, you guys did a good job of that.

23:58

>> See, this is the thing I don't

23:59

understand. People saying, you know,

24:00

Britain just took it without asking.

24:02

Look, see, we got permission. We've

24:04

we've checked with ourselves and we've

24:06

confirmed it's okay.

24:23

Yeah, that's me in 10 years.

24:33

Here we see a fine example of most of

24:38

the current alphabet. You'll notice the

24:40

omission of Y and Zed as at this time

24:44

those letters were under lensure

24:46

exclusive to the city of Toronto and the

24:48

band Rush.

24:55

Here we see documentation of the world's

24:58

first furies who of course went on to

25:03

rule and dominate the information

25:06

technology sphere. I mean

25:10

We we did take a lot of stuff. I'll be

25:12

honest.

25:13

>> There's There's quite a bit here that

25:15

isn't really ours.

25:17

>> This is room 18

25:19

of the ground floor.

25:21

>> Yeah.

25:21

>> First known instruction manual

25:25

for EQing your headphones to the harmon.

25:30

>> Many may not be aware, but the British

25:33

also invented the art of stealing things

25:37

from the ground.

25:52

I got to hang out with Cameron's mom.

25:55

>> No, it so like I I feel I feel like

25:58

>> that's got to go in the video.

25:59

>> It's got to go in there.

26:00

>> Oh, genuinely it was fascinating.

26:02

>> Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Just for a little bit

26:04

of context, my mother is a

26:05

prostheticist. Uh I think that's the

26:07

right term. Sorry, Mom, if I'm getting

26:08

that wrong. Uh, she does work for film

26:10

and TV. Uh, and as part of that, we're

26:12

looking at doing some things with her in

26:14

terms of building accurate replicas of

26:16

our head and ears and everything to do

26:18

further testing based on what we've got

26:20

today. The MRI scans that we did whilst

26:22

we were in California last year, uh, and

26:24

some other things which uh, we probably

26:25

shouldn't talk about just yet. She made

26:26

a baby.

26:28

>> Yeah, they're here right now.

26:29

>> She She made another baby.

26:31

>> I was not.

26:34

>> That is my real goodness.

26:38

Yeah, just just for the sake of YouTube,

26:39

this is not a real baby.

26:40

>> Oh my god, it's like heavy.

26:42

>> Yeah,

26:43

>> the birth of their children.

26:45

>> This is I like can't even comprehend

26:48

that

26:48

>> that's not a real baby. That's not a

26:50

real baby. I have to It's It's insane.

26:53

>> Yeah,

26:53

>> she Yeah. No, she I mean, she's my mom.

26:55

Uh but she's she's a very very talented

26:58

uh artist and prostheticist. Uh

27:00

engineer, I think, is probably the best

27:02

term to wild. It's terrifying. And so I

27:05

think there's there's some stuff which

27:06

we'll be able to do with her that is I I

27:09

think quite a bit beyond the you know

27:11

physiology of the other measurement rigs

27:13

and things like that and we'll be able

27:14

to look at some questions which have

27:16

been difficult to answer up until now.

27:19

>> Um I think you know I was telling these

27:20

guys but it it does feel a little

27:22

surreal that uh you know a week ago

27:24

we're all just kind of piled up in our

27:25

rooms and just being audio nerds right?

27:28

Um, and now we're all here together

27:31

chatting in front of the same table on a

27:33

very familiar backdrop. Uh, and it's

27:35

just a good time to kind of get get

27:37

everybody and, you know, not talk about

27:39

just really really nerdy stuff, but also

27:40

banter with each other and just, you

27:42

know, learn a bit from each other and

27:44

get inspiration in a different way.

27:46

>> I think we talked about a lot of nerdy

27:47

nerdy stuff.

27:48

>> We we absolutely still audio nerds.

27:51

>> I think this is actually groom talking

27:52

about

27:52

>> I think this is genuinely the nerdiest

27:54

thing that I've ever done in this in

27:56

this industry in this space. It's

27:59

>> certainly got to be up there. I kind of

28:00

want to put the MRIs up there as well,

28:01

but on No, this I think. Yeah. No, it's

28:03

it's been absolutely fantastic having

28:04

you guys here. I'm so glad that all of

28:06

you could come and I hope you've enjoyed

28:07

the UK.

28:08

>> We've made it very enjoyable.

28:10

>> It has been sufficient.

28:11

>> You deserve insane credit for everything

28:13

you've done for us here.

28:14

>> I'm glad you guys

28:15

>> It's been suffic. It's been

28:16

exceptionally okay, which is exactly

28:18

what we wanted.

28:20

>> Good stuff.

28:20

>> Yeah.

28:21

>> Well, we've got more coming. uh some

28:23

which we filmed today and some which

28:24

we're going to dive into a little bit

28:26

because as we found out today um some of

28:29

this stuff is a little bit less

28:31

straightforward or more time consuming

28:32

and there are some questions getting

28:34

raised as we answer others. So we'll be

28:36

bringing you along for the journey with

28:38

us on that. Stay tuned for part two

28:39

because we're diving into some pretty

28:41

interesting stuff. As always, if you

28:43

guys enjoy this kind of content,

28:44

remember to check out headphones.com the

28:45

next time you're in the market for a new

28:46

pair of headphones or audio gear because

28:48

they make it possible for us to do all

28:50

of this stuff. They're the ones who

28:51

sponsored this trip and so we were very

28:53

grateful to them for doing that. So

28:54

thanks to headphones.com and if you want

28:56

to chat with us, you can do so on our

28:57

forum or our Discord also linked below.

28:59

And um till next time we will see you

29:00

guys later.

29:02

>> Bye guys.

29:02

>> Bye.

29:03

>> Cheerio.

29:04

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