another thing David - the B& W are designed for studio/mastering/audiophile
use and so yes sound emanating from the back and sides are not a good thing
especially in a studio environment when you want to control the acoustics
for neutral monitoring - but thats quite a different application to the one
I am talking about in art installations in which a 360 degree driver might
be useful - Id certainly never use one for mixing !

On 15 October 2015 at 13:49, David Pickett <d...@fugato.com> wrote:

> At 14:35 15-10-15, Augustine Leudar wrote:
>
> >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)
>
> But surely, saying that ignores the fact that in a real room what comes
> out of the back (and sides) will be reflected from the room boundaries.  I
> think this is why the B&W 801 was in its day almost revolutionary.  Because
> hardly any sound came out of the back (or sides) of the speaker cabinet,
> one could put it in almost any room and it would sound the same.
>
> David
>
>
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