The co-creator of MP3 wants to invite you to a listening PARty that promises the most lifelike sound you’ve ever heard
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(Image credit: Brandenburg Labs)
(Image credit: Brandenburg Labs)
Not all tech innovators become household names, so while you’re probably heard of the MP3 music format you probably haven’t heard of its co-creator, Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg. But he’s a man you should be paying attention to, because he might just have invented the tech for your next spatial audio headphones.
The organisation is making big claims: “This is the first time a system with this level of immersion has ever been shown at a consumer electronics show,” it says.
So what’s Dr Karlheinz been up to?
There ain’t no party like a personalised auditory realities PARty
According to the good doctor, the new headphone system is the answer to a question he’s been asking since the creation of MP3: “How can we get better audio quality over headphones for a more realistic spatial experience to sound similar to real-world situations?” To deliver his dream of “the perfect audio illusion”, Brandenburg has been working with partners including MP3 parter the Fraunhofer Institute and the Technische Universität Ilmenau to study how the brain works when we’re listening to audio.
The doctor has gone into a bit more detail on the Fraunhoferwebsite, where he suggests that the system is a mix of noise cancelling, spatial audio and conversational awareness designed to pinpoint where sound is coming from and make it better – not just for music but for speech and situational awareness.
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