The solution lies in getting the home/spec builder industry to integrate in-wall loudspeakers at pre-specified locations (including ceiling) in the 21st century "media room" which room will become the new normal much like the kitchen has certain de-facto features/standards which are now taken for granted. In the fullness of time, multichannel audio in the home ultimately will prevail because it is the last frontier.
--- On Fri, 4/13/12, Gerard Lardner <glard...@iol.ie> wrote I ain't objecting to HOA. I'd love to have a HOA system again for normal listening; I /have/ heard it and agree it is good. But two things argue against it: 1.) Cost for a home installation. Despite what I wrote in an earlier message today, it was hard work to assemble even 8 /good/ speakers cheaply. I got them for HOA, but I probably will not use them for it, at least not for long, because 2) Having lots of speakers on one room is not compatible with home harmony or with visual aesthetics. Sadly, that is the killer. Bandwidth, storage, processing power? Yes, they are all affordable now. Now we need to find a solution to my point 2 above - and that is not an Ambisonics problem! In practice, Ambisonics is most useful as a production tool. Only a dedicated few will use it in a home environment. Only when the speakers can be effectively hidden from view without compromising the qualities needed for Ambisonics and for serious music reproduction will it have the potential to become part of the home system. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20120413/084cdc8b/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
