Peter Stitt et al did something in this general area : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maarten_Van_Walstijn/publication/258763081_SPECTRAL_IMPAIRMENT_OF_ENCLOSED_HIGHER_ORDER_AMBISONICS/links/0c960528e7f04a8046000000.pdf
"Much of the theory of Ambisonics investigates it in anechoic conditions but, when considering a system that is enclosed in a room, ignoring the boundary reflections influence on the recreated image is no longer ideal." On 22 February 2016 at 10:24, Peter Lennox <p.len...@derby.ac.uk> wrote: > Following on from discussions of decoder solutions: Forgive me if I've > missed this (I've been watching sursound for about 20 years, or so - but I > just may have missed the odd discussion!) > > Has anyone systematically studied the interactions between decoders, > speaker layouts and particular rooms? > > I ask because, it seems to me that interactions between room acoustics and > speaker positioning are known to have significant psychoacoustic (and > aesthetic) effects. Informally, I've observed ambisonics working better > than it had any right to, in particularly difficult rooms (big reflective > empty shoebox, for example). > > But in respect of particular speaker layouts, (as per the discussion on > avoiding too many speaker in the horizontal plane), it seems to me that > there could be non-trivial interactions, so that (for arguments' sake) a > particular room might benefit from 'this' speaker layout as against 'that' > speaker layout. > > I would seem a monster task to test a wide variety of rooms each with a > wide variety of speaker layouts (and I haven't even mentioned the possible > variety of speaker dispersion characteristics!) - but in the long run, it > needs doing - and sufficient testing might reveal 'families' of layout-room > acoustic relationships that can point to underlying causal rules. > > If it's been done, I'd like to read it, and if it hasn't - sounds like > I've just knocked together a precis proposal for a PhD project! > > > Dr. Peter Lennox > Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy > Senior Lecturer in Perception > College of Arts > University of Derby > > Tel: 01332 593155 > > The University of Derby has a published policy regarding email and > reserves the right to monitor email traffic. If you believe this was sent > to you in error, please select unsubscribe. > > Unsubscribe and Security information contact: info...@derby.ac.uk > For all FOI requests please contact: f...@derby.ac.uk > All other Contacts are at http://www.derby.ac.uk/its/contacts/ > _______________________________________________ > 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/20160222/2ccf4553/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.
