Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Paul Hodges
--On 13 April 2012 03:08 +0100 Stefan Schreiber st...@mail.telepac.pt wrote: I am not sure that any form of surround will make it into the home, I have quite a lot of commercial surround music recordings, on 5.1 media. However, because of my recording activities, my surround reproduction

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Steven Dive
Me for one. Steve On 13 Apr 2012, at 08:37, Paul Hodges wrote: Actually, I'd be interested to know how many people on this list listen to surround recordings on a surround system for simple pleasure, as opposed to in the lab or as part of specific investigations of the process. Paul

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Richard Dobson
On 13/04/2012 09:07, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: On 04/13/2012 03:49 AM, Robert Greene wrote: While the mode of expression is even more emphatic than my own, RCFA is to my mind right all up and down the line. Talking about 3rd order is just castles in the air. As a theoretical mathematician, I

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Richard Dobson
On 13/04/2012 03:08, Stefan Schreiber wrote: .. If you promote G format, 99% would see and listen to this as a 5.1 surround file. (An 99% would listen to an UHJ as a stereo file, cos there are really very few decoders around. In fact, 5.1 seems to be way more mainstream than decoded UHJ.)

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Ronald C.F. Antony
On 13 Apr 2012, at 04:08, Stefan Schreiber st...@mail.telepac.pt wrote: Steven Dive wrote: IMHO I can't see how FOA isn't clearly worth promoting along with up to 3rd order G-format decodes for 5.1/7.1 setups for home users. Basically, get UHJ and, while we are at it, superstereo

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Ronald C.F. Antony
On 13 Apr 2012, at 10:07, Jörn Nettingsmeier netti...@stackingdwarves.net wrote: On 04/13/2012 03:49 AM, Robert Greene wrote: While the mode of expression is even more emphatic than my own, RCFA is to my mind right all up and down the line. Talking about 3rd order is just castles in the

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread John Leonard
As my 'studio' is my spare room in our flat, I have decent set up where I can use the surround set-up, which Ronald will be pleased to know uses five matched loudspeakers, an LFE unit and has proper bass management, to listen for both work and pleasure. I play my SACD recordings on an

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread David Pickett
At 02:37 13/04/2012, Paul Hodges wrote: Actually, I'd be interested to know how many people on this list listen to surround recordings on a surround system for simple pleasure, as opposed to in the lab or as part of specific investigations of the process. I try to do this; but it is not

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Robert Greene
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Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread umashankar mantravadi
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Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Ronald C.F. Antony
Could you explain to me this phrase: Amibsonics (i.e. FOA) is fabulous for AMBIENCE but, alas, not for MUSIC (due to the lack of frontal emphasis) and c'mon . . . we all know it. For one, why would I want frontal emphasis? The whole point of Ambisonics is that it does NOT have any

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Robert Greene
I think that the idea that surround is not good enough for music , good enough to matter, really does not make sense. This is more or less like restricting the idea of music to what works well enough in stereo to be all right. But that is not all music, and indeed for example it does not include

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Newmedia
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Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Robert Greene
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Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Newmedia
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Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Gerard Lardner
I do. I have two classic Ambisonic decoders, a old Meridian in the sitting room, decoding to 5.1 speakers (the TV shares the speakers), and an ancient Minim AD10-based system in my office with 4 good speakers (soon to be extended to a 6-speaker hexagon array). Both are horizontal-only, obviously;

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Gerard Lardner
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Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Gerard Lardner
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[Sursound] Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread JEFF SILBERMAN
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