On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:52:22PM -0700, Robert Greene wrote: > Surround in music has never been a hit in any form and it still > is not. Moreover most music is not really enhanced by it in the minds of > most people. Orchestral music benefits enormously--most of what you hear > in an orchestra concert is all around you--but most people do not listen > to that kind of music. And canned artificial music , well, surround of > any kind hardly matters.
Correct. And if you want to use Ambisonics for anything beyond listening to classical music, e.g. to compete with 5.1 for movie sound, you need higher order. Which was near impossible or at least horribly complicated and expensive with analog technology. The revival of the past ten years or so is largely the result of higher order becoming possible in practice, along with an interest from telecom companies rather than music producers. Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow) _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
