Sound recording has been a consumer technology for so long now that it is ubiquitous, reaching for a mobile device and firing up an app takes only an instant. Anyone who takes an interest in audio ...

You're probably unfamiliar with binaural audio, a technology that dates back all the way to the late 1800s but, for a variety of reasons, fell by the wayside while mono and then stereo sound became ...

BBC R&D's Tom Parnell writes about setting up a 3D audio array at the Royal Albert Hall to capture the world's greatest classical music festival in binaural audio. The audio research team is now ...

We’re all used to hearing surround sound in cinemas – and perhaps even at home with the right set-up – but until now, what we’ve always listened to through headphones has been in stereo. That’s all ...

Imagine being able to mix and monitor immersive audio without the need for any complex loudspeaker setups. That was the dream of Professor Hyunkook Lee, the renowned spatial audio and psychoacoustic ...

Binaural audio is probably the coolest thing you can listen to with a pair of headphones. Instead of just a single microphone, binaural recordings use two microphones, set inside an analog for a human ...

Lately there has been a bit of a buzz about binaural sound. Early on Saturday morning, Rob da Bank broadcast a 3D Headphone Special on BBC Radio 1 (see the trailer below). In this show he used ...

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Sennheiser's high-tech headset puts microphones as well as earbuds in both your ears to produce incredibly immersive binaural 3D audio effects that really put a listener in the room with you. It also ...

Yesterday, I popped on my noise-cancelling headphones to play a few minutes of Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice. I could only play it for a moment before Polygon’s editor-in-chief, Chris Grant, and I ...

Here we are making the lawn fun again! Experimenting with a binaural microphone which some people call 3D sound or 8D sound.

BBC R&D's Tom Parnell writes about setting up a 3D audio array at the Royal Albert Hall to capture the world's greatest classical music festival in binaural audio. We are keen to explore how binaural ...