Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-06-03 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 09:06:19AM -0400, Marc Lavallée wrote: > Fons created Zita-njbridge to build a multi-channel networked system; > according to the description: > > " Zita-njbridge can be used for a one-to-one connection (using UDP) or in a > one-to-many system (using multicast). Sender an

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-31 Thread mgraves mstvp . com
d On Behalf Of Stefan Schreiber Sent: Friday, May 31, 2019 11:42 AM To: Surround Sound discussion group Subject: Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.) EVS is a full-range codec, covering both speech and music compression. Alas: the first link I gave includes

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-31 Thread Stefan Schreiber
gra...@mstvp.com http://www.mgraves.org o(713) 861-4005 c(713) 201-1262 sip:mgra...@mjg.onsip.com skype mjgraves -Original Message- From: Sursound On Behalf Of Stefan Schreiber Sent: Friday, May 31, 2019 10:01 AM To: Surround Sound discussion group Subject: Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: D

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-31 Thread mgraves mstvp . com
ound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.) (Opus) > It's basically the pinnacle of audio encoding at this point, having > merged the best ideas from CELT, Silk and a few entirely new ones. > It would be hard to see how any proprietary codec vendor could

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-31 Thread Stefan Schreiber
raves -Original Message- From: Sursound On Behalf Of Chris Woolf Sent: Friday, May 31, 2019 5:45 AM To: sursound@music.vt.edu Subject: Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.) On 30/05/2019 17:51, mgraves mstvp.com wrote: The RF issue of rang

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-31 Thread mgraves mstvp . com
.org o(713) 861-4005 c(713) 201-1262 sip:mgra...@mjg.onsip.com skype mjgraves -Original Message- From: Sursound On Behalf Of Chris Woolf Sent: Friday, May 31, 2019 5:45 AM To: sursound@music.vt.edu Subject: Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.) On 3

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-31 Thread David Pickett
At 12:44 31-05-19, Chris Woolf wrote: I don't know Opus but having read up its spec (on Wikipedia) it is lossy and so can only be used as a delivery format. I had to smile at 30ms latency being reported as adequate for musicians to feel "in-time" Yes, indeed! As an experienced organist I can s

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-31 Thread Chris Woolf
On 30/05/2019 17:51, mgraves mstvp.com wrote: The RF issue of range, carrier frequency, channel width is quite separate from the deliverable audio path. The Opus audio codec has revolutionized audio coding. It's able to deliver full-bandwidth audio at bitrates not much more than what was once

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-30 Thread Stefan Schreiber
It should spell Sennheiser, still? ”Even” in America... https://en-us.sennheiser.com/mkh-microphones Best, Stefan - - -  Citando Augustine Leudar : Thanks Chris - by multichannel I mean , basically, surround sound. So stereo is two channels - but it woiuld be nice to, for example, br

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-30 Thread mgraves mstvp . com
audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.) Answering this specific question... On 30/05/2019 10:42, Augustine Leudar wrote: > ... I had some walkie talkies that had a range of one KM with > admitedly terrible audio (surely this could be > improved) . Whereas Senheiser in ear m

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-30 Thread Augustine Leudar
Thanks Chris - by multichannel I mean , basically, surround sound. So stereo is two channels - but it woiuld be nice to, for example, broadcast 8 or 16 seperate signals to 8 or 16 seperate speakers each 100 metres apart .I have used the senheizer in ear montitors to do things like this but you can

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-30 Thread Chris Woolf
Answering this specific question... On 30/05/2019 10:42, Augustine Leudar wrote: ... I had some walkie talkies that had a range of one KM with admitedly terrible audio (surely this could be improved) . Whereas Senheiser in ear monitors have a really short distance range of around 40 metres and

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-30 Thread mgraves mstvp . com
-4005 > > c(713) 201-1262 > > sip:mgra...@mjg.onsip.com > > skype mjgraves > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Sursound On Behalf Of Chris > > Woolf > > Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2019 10:29 AM > > To: sursound@music.vt.edu > >

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-30 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 30/05/2019 à 00:47, David Pickett a écrit : At 22:52 29-05-19, you wrote: Distribution to speakers using UDP multicast of a multichannel stream could possibly make the only time difference between channels be eventual receiver buffering. Just speculation... Bo-Erik UDP would basically

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-30 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 09:32:02PM +0100, Paul Hodges wrote: > My concern with > wi-fi latency when multiple links are required to multiple speakers > would be that the latency will not be consistent between channels. > Although buffering will keep the data flow going, there is no way to > ensure

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-30 Thread Augustine Leudar
. It > > remains the most common approach to a real-time wireless link built > > specifically for streaming audio. > > > > Michael Graves > > mgra...@mstvp.com > > http://www.mgraves.org > > o(713) 861-4005 > > c(713) 201-1262 > > sip:mgra...@mjg.onsip.

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-30 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 05:55:49PM +0200, Wim wrote: > The major problem with wireless lays in the re-authentication that occurs > after a preset period. That takes up to several hundred millisecs. That's one problem. Another one is that you won't be alone on the channel. A quick scan here (Muni

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-29 Thread David Pickett
At 22:52 29-05-19, you wrote: Distribution to speakers using UDP multicast of a multichannel stream could possibly make the only time difference between channels be eventual receiver buffering. Just speculation... Bo-Erik But the question is whether it would be a fixed value and predictabl

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-29 Thread Bo-Erik Sandholm
Distribution to speakers using UDP multicast of a multichannel stream could possibly make the only time difference between channels be eventual receiver buffering. Just speculation... Bo-Erik Den ons 29 maj 2019 22:32Paul Hodges skrev: > --On 29 May 2019 19:53 + "mgraves mstvp.com" > wrot

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-29 Thread Paul Hodges
--On 29 May 2019 19:53 + "mgraves mstvp.com" wrote: > But for a signal sent by such a link, latency hardly matters if the > signal is to be mixed later with other microphones (perhaps the > ambisonic mic) that are fed directly, as the tracks can easily be > aligned in the DAW! This discussio

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-29 Thread mgraves mstvp . com
:22 PM To: Surround Sound discussion group Subject: Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.) At 17:41 29-05-19, you wrote: >Most of what I think of as the "local signal processing" is quite >speedy. Packetization delay is never less than 20

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-29 Thread David Pickett
At 17:41 29-05-19, you wrote: Most of what I think of as the "local signal processing" is quite speedy. Packetization delay is never less than 20 ms. Transmission delay dependent upon the network and distance. Poorly designed network elements lead to buffer bloat, which increases latency drama

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-29 Thread Wim
t; mgra...@mstvp.com > http://www.mgraves.org > o(713) 861-4005 > c(713) 201-1262 > sip:mgra...@mjg.onsip.com > skype mjgraves > > -Original Message- > From: Sursound On Behalf Of Chris Woolf > Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2019 10:29 AM > To: sursound@music.vt.edu

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-29 Thread mgraves mstvp . com
raves.org o(713) 861-4005 c(713) 201-1262 sip:mgra...@mjg.onsip.com skype mjgraves -Original Message- From: Sursound On Behalf Of Chris Woolf Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2019 10:29 AM To: sursound@music.vt.edu Subject: Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-29 Thread Chris Woolf
On 28/05/2019 19:47, Marc Lavallée wrote: Le 28/05/2019 à 13:48, mgraves mstvp.com a écrit : The latency is not only caused by the packetization; the transmission chain looks like: (microphone -> ADC -> encoding -> BT transmission) -> (BT reception -> decoding) -> (SIP + encoding -> IP

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-28 Thread Marc Lavallée
e mjgraves -Original Message- From: Sursound On Behalf Of Marc Lavallée Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 12:40 PM To: sursound@music.vt.edu Subject: Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.) Le 28/05/2019 à 13:20, mgraves mstvp.com a écrit : Marc, I'm wel

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-28 Thread mgraves mstvp . com
PM To: sursound@music.vt.edu Subject: Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.) Le 28/05/2019 à 13:20, mgraves mstvp.com a écrit : > Marc, > > I'm well and truly intimate with WebRTC. The trouble with IP-based > connectivity is then latency invol

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-28 Thread Marc Lavallée
@mstvp.com http://www.mgraves.org o(713) 861-4005 c(713) 201-1262 sip:mgra...@mjg.onsip.com skype mjgraves -Original Message- From: Sursound On Behalf Of Marc Lavallée Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 10:37 AM To: sursound@music.vt.edu Subject: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundba

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-28 Thread mgraves mstvp . com
1-1262 sip:mgra...@mjg.onsip.com skype mjgraves -Original Message- From: Sursound On Behalf Of Marc Lavallée Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 10:37 AM To: sursound@music.vt.edu Subject: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.) Le 28/05/2019 à 10:48, mgraves mstvp.com a

[Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-28 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 28/05/2019 à 10:48, mgraves mstvp.com a écrit : Marc, This is very interesting to me. Did you do this using Wi-Fi or some other wireless scheme? What I've been seeking is a low-cost, low-latency wireless solution for a headset. We have good, full-bandwidth solutions for wireless micropho