I'll just add my comments to the other excellent replies you've had. Experience of rather more years than I care to remember (of rigs in concert halls) leads me to suggest that amongst the best in terms of imaging (though, unfortunately not sound quality) are the Tannoy Dual Concentric designs. I think that there are two factors coming into play that result in this - one is the fact that all parts of the spectrum come from the same place due to the dual concentric design, the other is the relatively well controlled polar diagram. The unfortunately poor acoustic performance compared to modern designs like Genelecs is the only thing which stops me from going with them for everything. This sound quality seems to be related to the basic designs because when we had to audition some new ones a few years ago with the intention of using them to replace our flood damaged Tannoy 15" Monitor Golds which we had acquired in around 1970, we found the new ones sounded exactly like the four decade old ones - and bought Genelecs instead.
Dave On 1 July 2014 15:28, Sero <bassi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello All, > > First, thank you very much for this amazing and very useful mailing list. > > I have a query that might look like it is very newbie but it has created a > big confusion in my head when someone asked that to me recently. > > What is the best loudspeaker directivity (polar pattern) for an ambisonics > listening rig? > > I am very confused about this because I cannot find any reference on this > on any pubblication or discussion on the net. > My feeling is that the larger directivity angle the best (up to > omnidirectional) but I am still not sure about this. > We have a lot of discussion on decoding coefficient, decoding directivities > (in phase, max Re etc) but not on the best solution for the transducer > directivity. > > I hope you can solve my uncertainty. > > Thanks > Serafino > > > *Serafino Di Rosario* > > *MIOA MAES CENG* > > *28A Haycroft Road* > > *SW2 5HZ London(UK)http://expochirp.tumblr.com/ > <http://expochirp.tumblr.com/>* > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20140701/1f7cb2f9/attachment.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, > edit account or options, view archives and so on. > -- As of 1st October 2012, I have retired from the University. These are my own views and may or may not be shared by the University Dave Malham Honorary Fellow, Department of Music The University of York York YO10 5DD UK 'Ambisonics - Component Imaging for Audio' -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20140704/a3f59ec8/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
