[Sursound] Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread JEFF SILBERMAN
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[Sursound] Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread JEFF SILBERMAN
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Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread umashankar mantravadi
that is a question i had been meaning to ask. can a tetrahedral mic be used to create a room (correction) impulse response in B format? and how? umashankar i have published my poems. read (or buy) at http://stores.lulu.com/umashankar > From: rica...@justnet.com.au > To: sursound@music.vt.edu >

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Richard Lee
> I've recorded with Tetramics and I've set up an HSD 3D system Mark, what is this HSD 3D system? Can it play Aaron's B-format recordings? If you have been following the BLaH series, what we've found is that hardly any software decoders do plain FOA properly. ___ I tend to agree wi

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Gerard Lardner
t is. this is what ambisonics is all about: scalability. you get > to keep your meridians and your four quad speakers, and everyone can > just live happily ever after. > > [1] the only thing that's probably even cheaper is opinions. -- next part -- An HTML

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Gerard Lardner
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Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Gerard Lardner
I do. I have two classic Ambisonic decoders, a old Meridian in the sitting room, decoding to 5.1 speakers (the TV shares the speakers), and an ancient Minim AD10-based system in my office with 4 good speakers (soon to be extended to a 6-speaker hexagon array). Both are horizontal-only, obviously;

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Ronald C.F. Antony
On 13 Apr 2012, at 18:38, newme...@aol.com wrote: > Beginning in the 1990s, the music industry tried to promote the *surround* > (i.e. 5.1 style) special effect -- driven by the installed base of home > theaters and DVD players, along with a preceived need to recapture the > revenues being

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Newmedia
dicting these things -- however, I can only hope that I have at least stimulated some thinking and perhaps even a little entertainment! Mark Stahlman Brooklyn NY -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mai

[Sursound] Job opening in 3D-audio research & development

2012-04-13 Thread D. Sen
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Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Robert Greene
onic special effects. Lou Reed can play around all he wants. It will not create a new mass-market for a new special effect. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20120413/10

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Newmedia
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Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Robert Greene
I think that the idea that surround is not good enough for music , good enough to matter, really does not make sense. This is more or less like restricting the idea of music to what works well enough in stereo to be all right. But that is not all music, and indeed for example it does not include

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Ronald C.F. Antony
Could you explain to me this phrase: > Amibsonics (i.e. FOA) is fabulous for AMBIENCE but, alas, not for MUSIC > (due to the lack of frontal emphasis) and c'mon . . . we all know it. For one, why would I want frontal emphasis? The whole point of Ambisonics is that it does NOT have any emphasi

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Andrew Horsburgh
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Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread umashankar mantravadi
gt; bad business decisions -- it doesn't *improve* the listening to MUSIC enough > > for people to care. Seems that Apple also figured that out. > > > > I also know many people in the music *business* and they also heard it > > (indeed, spent a lot of money on it) and have univ

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Robert Greene
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Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Robert Greene
I was not objecting to high order for production. But it is never going to fly in playback terms. Everyone takes for granted (I assume) that people can and often do things to make recordings that do not happen at the playback end. (How many consumers know Protools?) That was hardly the point. Wh

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Newmedia
Apple also figured that out. I also know many people in the music *business* and they also heard it (indeed, spent a lot of money on it) and have universally come to the same conclusion. Case closed. Mark Stahlman Brooklyn NY -- next part -- An HTML attachment w

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Ronald C.F. Antony
On 13 Apr 2012, at 15:31, newme...@aol.com wrote: > Folks: > > Q: WHY would the average *music* listener want surround sound? > > A: They won't and, since this has already been tried (including with some > of the best known artists of all times), no one in the MUSIC business will > *ever*

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Ronald C.F. Antony
On 13 Apr 2012, at 13:57, John Leonard wrote: > A long time ago, I asked how many people on this list actually had any sort > of surround systems, let alone properly set-up home-cinema 5.1 systems, in > their homes and I think about three people said they did. I wonder how many > there are no

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Newmedia
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Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread David Pickett
At 02:37 13/04/2012, Paul Hodges wrote: Actually, I'd be interested to know how many people on this list listen to surround recordings on a surround system for simple pleasure, as opposed to in the lab or as part of specific investigations of the process. I try to do this; but it is not alwa

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread John Leonard
As my 'studio' is my spare room in our flat, I have decent set up where I can use the surround set-up, which Ronald will be pleased to know uses five matched loudspeakers, an LFE unit and has proper bass management, to listen for both work and pleasure. I play my SACD recordings on an inexpensiv

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Ronald C.F. Antony
On 13 Apr 2012, at 10:07, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > On 04/13/2012 03:49 AM, Robert Greene wrote: >> >> While the mode of expression is even more emphatic >> than my own, RCFA is to my mind right all up >> and down the line. Talking about 3rd order is >> just castles in the air. As a theoreti

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Ronald C.F. Antony
On 13 Apr 2012, at 04:08, Stefan Schreiber wrote: > Steven Dive wrote: > >> >> >> IMHO I can't see how FOA isn't clearly worth promoting along with up to >> 3rd order G-format decodes for 5.1/7.1 setups for home users. Basically, >> get UHJ and, while we are at it, superstereo into peopl

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Richard Dobson
On 13/04/2012 03:08, Stefan Schreiber wrote: .. If you promote G format, 99% would see and listen to this as a 5.1 surround file. (An 99% would listen to an UHJ as a "stereo file", cos there are really very few decoders around. In fact, 5.1 seems to be way more mainstream than decoded UHJ.)

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Richard Dobson
On 13/04/2012 09:07, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: On 04/13/2012 03:49 AM, Robert Greene wrote: While the mode of expression is even more emphatic than my own, RCFA is to my mind right all up and down the line. Talking about 3rd order is just castles in the air. As a theoretical mathematician, I sp

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Steven Dive
Me for one. Steve On 13 Apr 2012, at 08:37, Paul Hodges wrote: Actually, I'd be interested to know how many people on this list listen to surround recordings on a surround system for simple pleasure, as opposed to in the lab or as part of specific investigations of the process. Paul _

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Steven Dive
Is 5.1 better than any 2 channel can be? Surely a matter of taste and experience. Certainly I have not heard all stereo and 5.1 recordings ever made and, so far, no G-format material. My point is from my home user perspective that superstereo and UHJ decoding is pretty easy these days to in

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 04/13/2012 03:49 AM, Robert Greene wrote: While the mode of expression is even more emphatic than my own, RCFA is to my mind right all up and down the line. Talking about 3rd order is just castles in the air. As a theoretical mathematician, I spend most of my life building castles in the air.

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Paul Hodges
--On 13 April 2012 03:08 +0100 Stefan Schreiber wrote: I am not sure that any form of surround will make it into the home, I have quite a lot of commercial surround music recordings, on 5.1 media. However, because of my recording activities, my surround reproduction equipment is tied to my