[Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please?

2012-03-30 Thread Cara Gleeson
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2012-03-30 Thread Jascha Narveson
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Re: [Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please?

2012-03-30 Thread Martin Leese
Cara Gleeson coarsean...@gmail.com wrote: ... *Outline of dissertation question*: *Why did ambisonics not take off between the 1970's-90's?* Hi Cara, You will probably already have found the FAQ's spin on this. If not, visit:

Re: [Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please?

2012-03-30 Thread Peter Lennox
there is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time is right it was ahead of the technology. I don't even think it has failed - it just took off in a 'slow burn' way Actually, there is more being done on spherical harmonics and ambisonics than ever before - more experimental setups, more

Re: [Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please?

2012-03-30 Thread Robert Greene
I think there were a number of reasons 1 It took a long time for a medium to arrive that offered a conveninent way to present a lot of channels. Actually, while in principle CD did, in practice this was never used. The surround schemes that came along that worked commercially either involved

Re: [Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please?

2012-03-30 Thread Robert Greene
PS There is one more reason, which is less obvious and perhaps not obvious at all to those of you in Europe. Namely, Americans have never liked one point recording. They have never liked Blumlein or ORTF(quasi one point) stereo and they still do not. Starting with the Bell Telephone Labs(as the

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2012-03-30 Thread Newmedia
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Re: [Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please?

2012-03-30 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:52:22PM -0700, Robert Greene wrote: Surround in music has never been a hit in any form and it still is not. Moreover most music is not really enhanced by it in the minds of most people. Orchestral music benefits enormously--most of what you hear in an orchestra