> Hi, > > Thanks everybody for your well-considered comments. > The reason for going for a 2-channel format is compatibility with > distribution media formats (CD) - and I suppose it will mostly be listened > to without a decoder. > The possibility of recovering (2D) B-Format can be very useful, I think > (although apparently not 100% possible). >
My (perhaps idealistic) point, was that if you create as B-format ... then you can export as UHJ, as Blumlein stereo, as ..., ..., ... (and you have B-format in archive, _if_ you ever get the chanve to listen to / play that). But I accept that may be more than you want to do ... Michael > Cheers, > Marlon > > On Mar 15, 2014, at 12:00 , sursound-requ...@music.vt.edu wrote: > >> Message: 2 >> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:08:22 -0000 (GMT) >> From: "Michael Chapman" <s...@mchapman.com> >> To: "Surround Sound discussion group" <sursound@music.vt.edu> >> Subject: Re: [Sursound] Question about UHJ >> Message-ID: <54597.109.213.106.225.1394813302.m...@i-a-a.ch> >> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8 >> >>> There is another point - you can recover the B-Format horizontal >>> information from UHj - so, notionally, using Bruce Wiggins' irregular >>> decoding, you could display it on 5.1 >>> >> >> Why not make a three/four track ambisonic (B-format) master and make >> derivatives (such as UHJ) from that ? >> >> Marie-Antoinette ... ur no, sorry, Michael >> >>> Dr. Peter Lennox >>> >>> School of Technology, >>> Faculty of Arts, Design and Technology >>> University of Derby, UK >>> e: p.len...@derby.ac.uk >>> t: 01332 593155 > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
