Article: Redscape 3D Audio for Headphones Review

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4 hours ago, jrobbins50 said:

Mitch, will this work in Roon with DSF multichannel files?  I’m wondering if you ever had the opportunity to compare this Redscape product against the Darin Fong Audio Out Of Your Head software. The latter allows multichannel headphone listening with different room and system presets (really high end stuff), but, as I recall, is limited to 24/48, is ASIO only and works with JRiver but not Roon.

 

On the strength of your review, I ordered the Redscape with head tracker.  JCR 

 

Hi Jeffrey, yes it does work. See attached. As far as I have been able to test, any number of channels up to 7.1 in Roon are mapped exactly up to 7.1 in Redscape.  I tried Out Of Your Head and spent literally 30 minutes trying to get it to work to no avail and gave up. Output errors, crashes, lockups, wrong sample rate play speed (chipmunks 🙂 Maybe I am not giving it a fair shake, but I usually can get things to work pretty quickly... Besides, it is missing the head tracker which I think really completes the illusion IMO.

 

 

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3 hours ago, ted_b said:

Nice review Mitch!  This is tempting software for me, as I'm finally having my music room built as I type this, but it will still be quite awhile before my multichannel system is dialed in.  This might be a nice way to enjoy our NativeDSD/Channel Classic recordings (DSD 5.0 but I assume I downsample somewhere in the chain to get 96khz to Redscape) and my rock/jazz stuff too.  I haven't heard my Donald Fagen stuff in multichannel for soooo long. 

 

Do you find the NAD cans to be good at supporting the virtualized surround locations or is it much better when doing Redscape's stereo?  Have you ever heard the Symth Realiser stuff (way different price point, of course)?

Thx

Ted

 

Thanks Ted! Both sound quite good on the NAD's if I understand your question correctly. If I use the Windows 7.1 config and play each channel individually or listen to Redscapes 7.1 demo, the virtualized locations are exactly to be as expected. Redscapes 2 channel virtualization sounds great too, like being in front of ideal speakers in an ideal room. I enjoy the tone of the NAD's as well as I like the Harman target curve for headphones.

 

Yes, I heard the Smyth Realiser older version some time ago. Does work really well. But as you say, quite the price point difference 🙂 If one can handle a bit of diy, there is the Impulcifer that does what Smyth Realiser does and maybe worth some investigation.

 

Very cool about your music room! I hope you show us when it is done.

 

Kind regards,

Mitch