Reverse engineering a commercial spatial audio effect

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Raspberry Pi / Arduino / Adafruit at 24 Oct, 13:30 UTC

Austin Shijo wanted a Linux version of a Windows audio effect that pushed music out of the head and made it feel less pressed against the ears. Writing on epestr.com, he describes first trying to rebuild the effect by hand with PipeWire, HRTF databases and an LLM as a sounding board. The MIT KEMAR…