Possibly ambisonics is different - but not all multichannel audio uses ambisonics - certainly with vbap for example if your speakers are wide apart you don't want a big gap when panning between them then wider dispersal would be advantageous if the speakers are very close together I could see it would introduce coloration when the directivity of the speakers overlapped - with wavefield synthesis the smaller the gaps between speaker cones the higher frequencies can be succesfully spatialised - so I guess for wfs more "pinpoint" directivty would be preferred - I may also be wrong ! For creating true walk around 3d soundscapes with no sweet spot for me a useful tool would be a driver which would be a sphere which put out sounds in all directions (360) - because thats how sound often propogates in real space (eg a twig cracking up a tree will not just put out sound in the 180/90 degree space on one side) The dispersal pattern of speakers isnt often considered when building these kind of systems so its an interesting topic !
On 15 October 2015 at 13:24, Marc Lavallée <m...@hacklava.net> wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 07:08:29 +0200, David Pickett wrote : > > At 23:17 14-10-15, Augustine Leudar wrote: > > > > >Yeah actually the lsr308 and lsr305 have been getting rave reviews > > >and cost very little their waveguide gives wide dispersal (good off > > >axis response) which is probably good for spatial audio. > > > > Good off axis response, i.e. uncoloured response, is presumably a > > good thing. But, intuitively, I should have thought that the more > > playback channels you have, the less desirable any off axis response > > would be. Is this not so? > > > > David > > I also think that when an ambisonic array is composed of pairs of facing > loudspeakers, each pair is trying to reconstruct a directional wave. So > loudspeakers with more directivity would be better. I may be wrong, so > please comment! > -- > Marc > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- www.augustineleudar.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20151015/75e54bf8/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.
