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[Liam Peterson]

Great topic. The core failure mode people underestimate is that pinna diffraction is what actually carries your elevation and front/back cues, and that information lives in the spectral notches around 5–10 kHz. Generic HRTF datasets like KEMAR were measured on a mannequin, so if your actual pinna geometry doesn’t match the dataset, those spectral notches land at the wrong frequencies and your brain can’t resolve the ambiguity. That’s why so many competitive players using built-in HRTF modes (I hear a lot of CS and Valorant folks on this) get stuck doing constant “is that guy in front of me or behind me?” resets. The fix isn’t more processing—it’s individualization. If your platform supports measured or self-scanned HRTF, use

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