Re: [Sursound] Ambisonics decoder to hrtf with VR support

2015-03-13 Thread Alexis Shaw
On 13 Mar 2015, at 10:19 pm, Jörn Nettingsmeier netti...@stackingdwarves.net wrote: On 03/09/2015 12:12 PM, Tobix wrote: I've read that ambisonics is good for listener in center, right? This means that if player can move the sound effect will be distorted? If you're using pre-rendered

[Sursound] Dual hexagon using in-ceiling uppers and matching in-wall lowers

2013-12-16 Thread Alexis Shaw
Hello All I am a long time lurker here, and have been interested in setting up an ambisonic listening room in my house for some time. I have finally got the courage to try, however the only room that I have available to use is multi-use and only of moderate size 20m^2 (3940*4750*2690mm) In order

Re: [Sursound] Dual hexagon using in-ceiling uppers and matching in-wall lowers

2013-12-16 Thread Alexis Shaw
On 16 Dec 2013, at 1:25 am, Alexis Shaw alexis.s...@gmail.comjavascript:; wrote: Hello All I am a long time lurker here, and have been interested in setting up an ambisonic listening room in my house for some time. I have finally got the courage to try, however

Re: [Sursound] Dual hexagon using in-ceiling uppers and matching in-wall lowers

2013-12-16 Thread Alexis Shaw
On Tuesday, December 17, 2013, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:13:15AM +1100, Alexis Shaw wrote: In terms of decoder I was intending to hack a hifi preamp with an 8 input-12output matrix 128k long fir filters. That is DFT the inputs, for each frequency in that fft

Re: [Sursound] Dual hexagon using in-ceiling uppers and matching in-wall lowers

2013-12-16 Thread Alexis Shaw
Hi Joseph. I am thinking of hacking the emotiva UMC-200, if I use the secondary zone DACs I should be able to get some reasonable quality out of it. Regards Alexis Shaw On Tuesday, December 17, 2013, Joseph Anderson wrote: Hello Alexis, Sounds like a fun project. What is the hardware you're

Re: [Sursound] Dual hexagon using in-ceiling uppers and matching in-wall lowers

2013-12-16 Thread Alexis Shaw
On Tuesday, December 17, 2013, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:53:23AM +1100, Alexis Shaw wrote: 1. That's giant overkill, completely useless. Whatever you need as filtering in a decoder can be done easily with much shorter impulse response. Or even with some

[Sursound] Spherical microphone array

2013-10-18 Thread Alexis Shaw
Hello all. I was wondering what people thought of the usefulness of a 10cm diameter spherical microphone array with 1000 mems detectors. (I'm Thinking of using ADMP621s) I know that this has a kr of about 3.2 but with the large number of microphones I was thinking it might be possible to get a

Re: [Sursound] Making a standalone 8ch player

2013-05-23 Thread Alexis Shaw
Do you need internal dacs. How many channels do you need implemented. I am working on a solution to the same problem at the moment. On Thursday, May 23, 2013, Marc Lavallée wrote: That's an interesting idea: clustering Raspberry Pis with cheap 8 channels usb modules and jackd2. -- Marc

Re: [Sursound] Making a standalone 8ch player

2013-05-23 Thread Alexis Shaw
you mean. I am thinking 8 outputs to start with min 16 bit 44.1 but it would be nice to have something that could be easily customisable for more On 23 May 2013 14:08, Alexis Shaw alexis.s...@gmail.com javascript:; wrote: Do you need internal dacs. How many channels do you need

Re: [Sursound] Making a standalone 8ch player

2013-05-23 Thread Alexis Shaw
chip to solder though... Ben On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Alexis Shaw alexis.s...@gmail.comjavascript:; wrote: I am working on a system that can drive 40 or so channels based on a zynq 7020 processor. The zedboard which is the dev kit i am working with costs 320 for academics

Re: [Sursound] Patent application: Data structure for HOA

2012-11-01 Thread Alexis Shaw
For HRTF based sound, headphones work the best. The HRTF is the solution of the in-head effects. On 2 November 2012 14:07, Stefan Schreiber st...@mail.telepac.pt wrote: Richard Dobson wrote: The same is true of stereo too. There are people who just don't hear stereo as stereo. If the