[TenTec] Source for Binaural Receiver

Steve Ellington steven4lq at gmail.com
Tue Jan 3 13:49:45 EST 2017


You can get some effect by simply reversing the leads on one side of your
headset.

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 12:46 PM, Doc <k0evzdoc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Spencer, well frankly I don't know for sure, but don't believe so.  In
> fact, wouldn't a stereo headset be better, also allowing the operator to
> move around a bit, while the audio into the headset would remain constant.
> So far as I know--and I'm just learning about all this!--the radio/audio
> device takes the original signal, changes one of them by 90 degrees, then
> both the original and now-shifted signal go to the output.
>
>  The result is that what is heard sounds like stereo, with the various
> signals apparently "floating" in a 3-dimensional space.  The signal one is
> desiring to listen to/work will be tuned for equal loudness in each ear.
> Seems like there are a number of ways that this 90-degree shift can be
> done, from the very complicated to a fairly simple L/C network.  If I
> hadn't heard all this, I would think we are describing hocus pocus, but it
> does work and very well.
>
> So you can see that while it *might* be possible to use a pair of speakers,
> but using headphones would be optimum for the 3-dimensional effect.
>
> As I said, it has taken me lots of research and reading in order to be able
> to understand this in purely layman's terms (g).
>
> 73,
> --Doc/K0EVZ
>
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Spencer <w1gak at arrl.net> wrote:
>
> > Would a pair of carefully tuned and properly placed  resonant speakers
> > work?
> >
> > Spencer W1GAK
> >
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