mass production will not happen so easily, but if you dont count your computer in the cost, 200 dollars for first order, without height is very possible. there are many 7.1 channel cards, some of them on usb, which are based on an eight channel d-a convertor. if you ignore the software provided with them, and use asio4all, the computer will see eight asio audio channels (i am talking PC). i would have said computer home theatre systems, but they have too much cross talk (i think deliberate) and they are really poor. but buying them for boxes and putting in better drivers (i am at the moment using 3.5 inch vifas, which cost 10 dollars each, is very possible, and if your are little more ambititions, it is not difficult to make 1 litre sealed boxes for these vifas (using mdf or even layers of corrugated cardboard).a four channel car amplifier should be enough to start with. and there is plenty of decoding software. umashankar
i have published my poems. read (or buy) at http://stores.lulu.com/umashankar > Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 05:57:34 +0300 > From: de...@iki.fi > To: sursound@music.vt.edu > Subject: Re: [Sursound] Ambisonics on the cheap? > > On 2011-07-29, Sarang S. Dalal wrote: > > > I've been lurking for only a day, but Sampo's note gives me the > > courage to go ahead and ask the first question I was hoping this group > > might help me answer. > > And good it was. No? ;) > > My question then is, how to do ambisonic even cheaper. I sort of > undertand the theory, and I've had the fortune of knowing a couple of > researchers/enthusiasts who could show me their rigs. The problem is, > those rigs aren't precisely affordable, even when built up from spare > parts. So how do we come up with a complete, affordable, ambisonic rig, > with the minimum of four (effective) speakers for first order, at an > affordable price? Say, below 200 or even 100 euros? Including speakers, > full digital decoding for the usual layout variation, and all that? > > If we could somehow do that, and mass reproduce it, the rest should be > pretty easy. So how do we do that?!? > -- > Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front > +358-50-5756111, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2 > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20110804/8c7cb870/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
