Even using spare parts, a complete system can be cheap. - one plug computer with ethernet: 75 euros (or with wifi : < 100 euros) - one usb 7.1 sound card: < 20 euros - four or more small fullrange speakers: ?
The first step would be to create a complete software system with a good user interface, either with a lightweight GUI or a web interface, that could run on any computer (not only on a dedicated hardware). I don't think that mass production is important; the hardware is changing too fast, so any integrator could propose their own version of the system with different options (and speaker configurations). -- Marc Thu, 4 Aug 2011 05:57:34 +0300 (EEST), Sampo Syreeni <de...@iki.fi> wrote : > 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?!? > On 2011-08-04, umashankar mantravadi wrote: > > > 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. > > Software, D/A, amplifier and decent speakers included? I agree that > that all should be possible, but do we have it now? On Amazon, ready > for delivery? I think not. _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
