crossfeed?

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I am not familiar with the therm ' crossfeed ' can anyone explain what it is and what it does?
It seems to work very well with a Beyerdynamic DT 770pro

thank you
 
it basically makes it so that the same sound comes through both the speakers.


some music have certain instrumental parts playing in only one speaker, making more...'immersive' music. crossfeed makes it so that the instrumental parts that only were supposed to go through one speaker, come through both of them.
 
Actually, crossfeeding creates two delayed channels, based on the L and R channel, and sends a small, filtered portion to the opposite channel. This leads to more perceivable "room", a less intense direct stereo image, and can improve extra-stereo imaging (sounds perceived to come from outside of the normal range) due to slight misalignments in phasing.

It's possible, depending on the source material, that it may lead to certain issues due to the relative time alignment of sounds occurring in either channel. In certain scenarios, out-of-phase signals can have a positive effect on stereo imaging, but it can also cause minor problems by attenuating or accentuating certain sounds, depending on their relative time alignment.

It's not something you'd want to worry about. My understanding is that the amount of these additional delayed channels is very minimal, so at best, you're looking at far less than 1dB in possible change in sounds in the worst case scenario (180 degrees out-of-phase), which is an inaudible change to all but the most experienced of mastering engineers.
 
thank you for your replies.
Could this be possible to simulate on the Pc with some kind of plugin ( X-Fi EM and WMP 10 ) all together it *should* sound like on the dansfloor in a club.

ty :)
 
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