binaural
Americanadjective
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having two ears.
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of, with, or for both ears.
binaural hearing; a binaural stethoscope.
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(of sound) recorded through two separate microphones and transmitted through two separate channels to produce a stereophonic effect.
adjective
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relating to, having, or hearing with both ears
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employing two separate channels for recording or transmitting sound; so creating an impression of depth
a binaural recording
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He records them with sensitive binaural microphones, which have the ability to pick up sounds exactly the way you’d hear them if you were in that place yourself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
In 2016, he produced an experimental binaural sound piece titled “Inspection” for the BBC that featured synthetic sounds and machine-read texts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2021
The audience wore headphones, and the show made a pioneering use of binaural sound, which uses a head-shaped microphone to record sounds in the same way our ears hear them.
From New York Times ● May 20, 2020
But Apogee, the company that co-developed Sennheiser’s curious and cool Ambeo 3D headphones with binaural mics, has pretty much solved all of the issues for me.
From The Verge ● Apr. 4, 2019
In auscultating the heart I prefer the binaural stethoscope of the Ford pattern.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall
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