On Oct 29, 2015, at 12:22, Geoffrey Barton <geoffreybar...@mac.com> wrote:

> On Oct 29, 2015, at 04:41, Dave Malham <dave.mal...@york.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Going back to this old theme, something which slipped under my radar but
>> reappeared when I was re-reading the Integrex decoder articles was
>> Michael's throw-away statement on page 3 that "...a fully fledged ambisonic
>> 'variable matrix' design is under development for (such) specialist
>> applications". Does anyone (Geof Barton, Peter Craven, Peter Carbines,
>> Richard lee...) remember this or know anything about it - certainly nothing
>> remains in my memory, even if it was there in the first place.
> 
> Certainly. It was called the 'VDP' decoder, 'Variable Directional Preference'.
> 
> Michael and I had great fun with that; it revealed all sorts of detail in 
> stereo recordings played through it, quite apart from the effect on UHJ.
> I believe that, some time after I left the Cybernetics dept, to quote Peter 
> Fellgett, 'a student destroyed it by connecting 240v into the 5v supply'.

Any relation to what Meridian calls “SuperStereo”?


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