On Thursday 22 July 2010 16:29:01 Chris Cannam wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Paul Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > > you don't ned anything fancy to listen to B-format > > recordings, and one of the major reasons for that is fons' open source > > decoder that will allow you to listen to them with any jack-enabled > > audio player and your existing equipment. > > Question that just occurred to me. I'm very ignorant about spatial > audio, and although I'm sure several of my colleagues could tell me > this, I thought it might be sort of on-topic here. Is it possible, or > easy, or sensible, or worthwhile, to reduce a B-format recording into > stereo in multiple different ways in order to achieve different > subjective "listener position" results when using headphones?
It makes sense to reduce B-format to stereo. But the target is important, if you aim at headphones, there are decoders that create an binaural signal. If normal stereo-systems are the target, you will do a decoding similar to any ambisonics setup but only use two speakers in the correct stereo positions and decode to file... The headphone-version gives more of the ambisonics feeling, but the normal stereo signal also benefits from the recording done in ambisonics. Have fun, Arnold
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