"Richard W.E. Furse" wrote: > > Now there's a subject and a half. Ambisonics is *different* to 5.1 and has > advantages and disadvantages (mostly advantages IMHO). Much of the power of > Ambisonic encoding is that you can find an optimal decoding strategy for > whatever speakers are available and you don't need a hardware decoder (there > are a number of software ones included in the CMT plugin set). >
Hear, hear. It's the only one based on maths. (i.e. it acknowledges the *fact* that it's impossible to add a fourth speaker non-redundantly, assuming you've got only two human ears). > > Anyone wanting to find out about Ambisonics might be interested in taking a > look at http://www.muse.demon.co.uk/3daudio.html. > Excellent link! I'd not noticed it before. Thanks! Glad to see the York people still at it. Nick/
