Re: [Sursound] Blumlein Shuffler - beta testers wanted

2011-09-20 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:02:56AM +0100, Paul Hodges wrote: It's not the same. The shuffler is designed to process signals that have no significant level differences in the frequency range it handles, just the phase differences. But Blumlein also considered shuffling might be desirable with

Re: [Sursound] Blumlein Shuffler - beta testers wanted

2011-09-20 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:53:08AM +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote: On 2011-09-19, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Though perhaps more surround than most would think. Come with me, here: if you take a look at the compensation circuitry which turns A-format into B-format within the conventional

Re: [Sursound] another patent

2011-09-20 Thread Dave Malham
On 19/09/2011 15:21, Stefan Schreiber wrote: Dave Malham wrote: Well, like I said, I do apologise - it was an unfortunate attempt at a humorous dig at the system and the fact that patent examiners, who are generally overworked and underpaid, often end up being forced to take on patents

Re: [Sursound] Blumlein Shuffler - beta testers wanted

2011-09-20 Thread Dave Malham
On 20/09/2011 01:53, Sampo Syreeni wrote: OTOH, the shuffler algorithm is exactly the one used to extract the Ambisonic X,Y,Z signals by mics using omni capsules on a rigid spere. This is something totally new to me. Rigid sphere? Originally it was about an open 1D sphere (thus, line

Re: [Sursound] Blumlein Shuffler - beta testers wanted

2011-09-20 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:33:08AM +0100, Dave Malham wrote: As Eric says, though, this isn't much different from what happens with phono cartridge amplifiers. In fact, one _might_ even say that all that is happening is that the implicit eq in electro-mechanical design of ribbon mics is

Re: [Sursound] Blumlein Shuffler - beta testers wanted

2011-09-20 Thread Dave Malham
Couldn't agree more... On 20/09/2011 10:58, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:33:08AM +0100, Dave Malham wrote: As Eric says, though, this isn't much different from what happens with phono cartridge amplifiers. In fact, one _might_ even say that all that is happening is that

Re: [Sursound] [ot] another patent

2011-09-20 Thread Michael Chapman
The modern day pharmaceutical industry is perhaps the one exception to the rule that patents are bad to humanity. Why is that? Well, because it's remained the most sacred, shielded, unquestioned, and especially for the longest time. In part because of the huge and quite possibly unfounded

Re: [Sursound] AES Convention Ambio Demo

2011-09-20 Thread Michael Chapman
If any of you are coming to the AES Convention this October, you are welcome to come�for a demonstration of Ambiophonics and Panambio in nearby New Jersey. Every success for the demo's. There are�seven different Ambiophonic-like systems�you can try out here including component, PC, Apple,

Re: [Sursound] [ot] another patent

2011-09-20 Thread Stefan Schreiber
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Re: [Sursound] [ot] another patent

2011-09-20 Thread Michael Chapman
Sampo Syreeni wrote: On 2011-09-19, Stefan Schreiber wrote: What she does *not* know is that the oldest, simplest and cheapest NSAID medication works even better. I mean, today, now that I ran out of my prescribed NSAID, I again took a gram's worth of aspirin (acetosalicylic acid). As

Re: [Sursound] [ot] another patent

2011-09-20 Thread Stefan Schreiber
Oops, I try to send the same message in another format... :-[ Michael Chapman wrote: Sampo Syreeni wrote: On 2011-09-19, Stefan Schreiber wrote: What she does *not* know is that the oldest, simplest and cheapest NSAID medication works even better. I mean, today, now

Re: [Sursound] [ot] another patent

2011-09-20 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:15:19PM -, Michael Chapman wrote: I must disagree. Patents _do_ distort the market. As does any monopoly, even a temporary one. I'd very much want to see some changes to patent law, like for example a patent being cancelled if within a reasonable time there are

Re: [Sursound] [ot] another patent

2011-09-20 Thread Richard Dobson
On 20/09/2011 20:38, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:15:19PM -, Michael Chapman wrote: .. Intellectual property, just like property of physical goods, does not exist naturally - it is something granted by society to individuals in the hope that society will benefit by

Re: [Sursound] [ot] another patent

2011-09-20 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 09:23:37PM +0100, Richard Dobson wrote: On 20/09/2011 20:38, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:15:19PM -, Michael Chapman wrote: .. Intellectual property, just like property of physical goods, does not exist naturally - it is something granted by

Re: [Sursound] [ot] another patent

2011-09-20 Thread Richard Dobson
On 20/09/2011 22:24, Fons Adriaensen wrote: .. Wow. How far back in time does this arrangement go? Which came first - the individual, or the society? That doesn't really matter. If a number of individuals interact you have a society. Once that happens, things are 'yours' only because the