On Mon, 22 May 2006 01:14:55 +0200 fons adriaensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 12:33:46AM +0200, Ron Smits wrote: > > > How hard would it be to make a dialog/druid/wizard thingy > > that would just ask you what speakerset you have and set up > > all the stuff that is needed to have great sound from all > > speakers whatever you throw at it? > > Speaking as a (rather purist) sound engineer, I'd say that's > sort of a contradiction. If the material you listen to was > produced for two speakers, then using more than two will > in general not deliver great sound. It will either completely > blurr the sound image you would have with two speakers, or > at best add some effect that was not intented by the creators > of the music. > > It depends on your definition of 'great' of course. > Fons, as a sound engineer you are probably aware o imaginary sound source which are mirror images of speakers in walls, ceiling and floor just like imaginary light source in mirross. So, depending on the placement of speakers it may be not that bad. ... Anyway, Ron Smits is correct about "the feeling that the alsa material is aimed towards the card and not towards the speakerset that is attached to it". And yes, I have to allocate some time to prepare the ALSA HAL proposal. ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
