Dan Dugan wrote:
> >> Here is my solution
> >>
> >> .http://www.focusrite.com/products/vrm/vrm_box/
> >
> > That's such an obvious idea I can't believe no-one implemented it
> before now! Some of us have been cooking such simulations for a while,
> using custom convolutions. It would be nice to have this as a plugin
> for the master bus. Maybe someone has thought of that too!
>
> This is ridiculous. The system doesn't include any way for equalizing
> your headphones. Different models of headphones have very different
> sounds.
Here's the manufacture's answer to that objection:
http://www.focusrite.com/answerbase/en/article.php?id=1134
"We used the Sennheiser HD 280/HD 650, Beyerdynamic DT 100, Beyerdynamic 770
and the PROline 650s to test VRM with, though during development the concept
was tested on a wide variety of headphones of different designs (e.g. open and
closed) and of varying cost and quality...."
I found many sceptics in forum threads discussing it, along with a few people
claiming it had worked well for them.
I also found this review, which proclaimed it to be useful, but also discusses
a few problems he had with it:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr11/articles/focusrite-vrmbox.htm#Top
Peter Shute
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