Multichannel source , headphones, HQplayer for downmixing or atmos experience?

[MarcMarc]

So I got a bunch of multichannel SACD rips and recently got into ripping atmos Blu-ray’s and 5.1 suround Blu-ray’s… I know the atmos rips are missing the spatial information of the atmos stream .

Currently I’m using roon to downsample everything to stereo for my headphones.

I’m wondering if HQPlayer5 is able to to a atmos emulation for headphones for a better 3D effect or offer me a better downmixing stereo result.

I don’t need DSD here and would be fine with PCM at 48khz.

But it should be a rather set-up once solution and should work with 2.0 up to 7.1 content and basically notice on its own if the source has content in all channels or not.

[Chunhao_Lee]

Try this:

HQPlayer Embedded Discussion [2021-2022]

My 2 main HRTF sources: Listen and MIT KEMAR But I personally prefer Listen. go Listen’s Demo Sound page. Try all to find the “roundest” one. go Listen’s Download page to get your roundest file. choose “Compensated” IR WAV files as listed. Because the files are all L+R mixed so you have to use Audacity to split it to L mono and R mono. (deg is counter clockwise–I know it’s painful.) 030-000 deg as L main 330-000 deg as R main 000-000 deg as C and LFE 105-000 deg as LS 225-000 deg as RS …

[Jeffrey_Robbins]

You should check out the Redscape app, which can emulate up to an eight channel array on any headphones. It doesn’t put everything in the right place for 5.1.2 Atmos but does a nice job for 5.1 content. You can use JRiver to play back the multichannel material and output to the Redscape app to decode the 5.1 file. JCR