I think most people would buy them for other reasons but I'm only talking abut multichannel surround sound and I'm only talking about music. I should emphasise that my very specific interest in these headphones is for listening to high quality 5.1 channel (or 5.0, 4.1 or 4.0 channel) surround sound music. No, I haven't contacted Audeze yet but since posting I've been to the Head-Fi site to look for other people's experiences and I see Audeze follows the Mobius thread there so I may post there later today. Despite these issues, I continue to enjoy using Nx on an almost daily basis.
It requires some patience and proper operating system settings for successful 5.1 playback. One final point - if you want a simple plug-n-play solution, I’d probably discourage the use of Nx at this time. Since I use none of these services for music listening, I have no use for the iOS version of Nx. The Nx iOS app is limited to processing audio from your Apple Music library only (or SoundCloud or Spotify). The original “non-processed” version often sounds somewhat cleaner, albeit the imaging is back inside your skull! This becomes immediately apparent when switching the app off while playing back a stereo mix. Due to the heavy DSP and psychoacoustic processing, Nx tends to impact the overall mix EQ. In the meantime, they advised me to use the previous version of the Nx app, which I am still using without this issue. I reported this issue to Waves Tech Support months ago, and they acknowledged the issue and promised a fix. This kills the entire experience and renders the app useless. The latest version of the Nx app actually has a bug with some Macs where the center channel audio is present in all “five” virtual speakers at once. Toggling between Camera and Tracker in the app Settings pane solves the problem more often then not. I’ve had to reinstall the Nx app several times to solve this - but it never permanently fixes the problem. For whatever reason, the Nx app will randomly not detect the presence of the Tracker.
Honest review of waves nx plugin Bluetooth#
Bluetooth connectivity with the Head Tracker is sometimes a struggle to establish. Lest this sound like some blind praise for the product, there are a few issues with the Nx solution that I do struggle with: And the effect of having each “speaker” stay in a static position when I turn my head is a game-changer, so much so that I prefer to use the Head Tracker for stereo-only listening as well. When listening to the quad mix of Pink Floyd’s “Us And Them” for example, the repeats of the vocal during the verses (“Us”.”Them”) ping convincingly all around my head. I don’t find the effect gimmicky at all - unlike the reports of others, I find the virtual surround imaging to be immersive and highly convincing with 5.1 content - nearly on par with most binaural recordings I’ve heard. I honestly believe this is the most realistic sounding “surround” experience on headphones I’ve yet heard.
Honest review of waves nx plugin mac#
Just wanted to chime in this thread again.I have thoroughly enjoyed the Waves Nx app on my Mac in tandem with the Nx Head Tracker.
I would be very interested to hear other opinions. But I think they are useless for 5.1 channel surround sound music unless of course I have them set up all wrong which is always a possibility! At least they work out of the box, unlike the WavesNX plugin. Oh, I should have mentioned that they include a built-in head tracker which seems to work fairly well, but to me it's just a gimmick and I would never actually use it.
I haven't read any other reviews yet - I wonder what other people are making of them? They are very uncomfortable to wear and the controls are incredibly fiddly and badly designed - for example, it's impossible to scroll the headphone volume wheel without also accidentally pressing it, which operates a completely different function. It sounds extremely weird and not at all realistic. The way the headphones deal with the rear channels is bizarre - it's like being a room with all five speakers laid out in a row in front of you, so the rear left is now to the left of the front left and the rear right is to the right of the front right. Like the WavesNX plugin, yes, it does provide a sort of outer-space type soundscape but there's no sense of surround sound whatsoever - the headphones fail to produce any sense of sound coming from behind the listener so your soundscape is entirely in front. Anyone else tried them yet? My verdict after the first few minutes is: this is the stupidest, most useless audio product I have ever wasted my money on. My Audeze Mobius "3D" headphones arrived today.
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