On 11/27/2010 12:00 AM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 11:28:27PM +0100, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > >> let's hope we can surf the wake and profit from the general interest in >> with-height sound reproduction and get some people to ask the right >> questions. > > First question: how does it compare to 3h1v ?
like apples to oranges. the way they mix, there are almost no phasing artifacts. but localisation breaks up to the sides and rear, as expected. it sounds basically as if you would stick four more speakers on top of 5.1 (oh wait, you mean that's what they did???). they claim "no sweet spot", and there has been loads of other marketing drivel. there is really nothing special to it, just more discrete speakers. the interesting thing is they seem to have a codec that will hide the upper signals within a valid pcm stream for the usual 5.1, which might be quite elegant in terms of distribution and compatibility. but their claims are an insult to their customers' intelligence... i've heard brief excerpts that were done with a "native" microphone array - follows the usual "logic" of sticking cardioids where speakers are, pointing to the outside. looked quite ridiculous, as each mic was in a rycote with fur cover - something you stick on a crane, not give a boom operator. it was nice enough for ambient sound, but totally unconvincing in terms of non-frontal localisation. there was no talk of complete panning functions, and it looks like that's not what they do. it seems to be the old acousmatic way - make stereo pairs and work with those, separately. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio), Elektrofachkraft Audio and event engineer - Ambisonic surround recordings http://stackingdwarves.net _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
