Re: [Sursound] Matrix H lives ??

2017-04-24 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2017-04-13, Eero Aro wrote: These two CD:s have been released of the Proms, and it is not certified, if these are H-Matrix at all. They do decode well with an Ambisonic decoder. I'm pretty certain people on this list, perhaps combined with the folks on music-dsp, can utilize modern

Re: [Sursound] Matrix H lives ??

2017-04-24 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2017-04-13, g...@btinternet.com wrote: My question is whether it is worth digitising these recordings for posterity? It always is. I'm one of the folks who are willing to bear part of the brunt. But only part of it. Full audio/video takes a lot of room, unlike my beloved textual

[Sursound] Matrix H lives ??

2017-04-14 Thread g...@btinternet.com
It seems there is more material than I thought so I'm going ahead and digitising the whole lot. These cassettes are 40 years old now so I'm not going to leave it any longer. The material is:- Liszt Prelude and Fugue on BACH for organ (excerpt) Janacek Sinfonietta

Re: [Sursound] Matrix H lives ??

2017-04-13 Thread Eero Aro
Andrew wrote: Programme material* is the Last Night of the Proms (excerpt) and some BBC drama. The Last Night of the Proms from 1977 is a rarity. These two CD:s have been released of the Proms, and it is not certified, if these are H-Matrix at all. They do decode well with an Ambisonic

[Sursound] Matrix H lives ??

2017-04-13 Thread g...@btinternet.com
Hello, I have approx. 30 minutes of Matrix H recorded off-air in 1977. The bad news is that it's a 1-7/8 ips compact cassette. The good news is that the sound quality is very good, no noise reduction was used, no perceptible azimuth drifting, and only occasional dropouts. Programme material* is

Re: [Sursound] Matrix H lives ??

2017-04-13 Thread Augustine Leudar
Jesus dont throw them away - Ill jave 'em (Im a terrible hoarder) . However - if all 4/2 (?) channels are on the same tape they should automatically stay in phase with each other ?I guess if there was more than one tape then there could be a drift there could be an issue - but if all tracks are on