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Originally Posted by Kewl
This is the surprising part. On a mono source, the encoding should really be the same for a given azimuth and elevation.
So here, it boils down to how the encoders deal with stereo. Slight gain differences.
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Well, you made a point. The placement of the instrument was not exactly the same between both encoders, particularly in terms of elevation. I did the test againbut with the exact same placement (+/- 88° azimuth, 30° elevation) and now the difference is inaudible. I did a null test, and there's only a slight difference between them, that is not explained by the difference in gain (the full Sparta chain sounds fuller to me). But that difference in really negligible.
I still puzzled by the results from DearVR Pro: the encoder/panner is really nice and gives me a stronger sense of depth and spatial separation (the instrument sounds less in your face). However its binaural decoder really sucks (at least to my ears).
There's a lot to explore with the Sparta ambiBIN decoder. I found a source of HRIR's, and the following clip is the same drum loop, with a KU100 HRIR instead of the default one, and "phase simplification" preprocessing instead of the default "diffuse-field EQ" setting:
https://soundcloud.com/sebastien-guy...0-phasesimplif
That one sound really good to me: deep, full, spacious, "alive"