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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ae91a0c9/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.
