Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-03 Thread Ronald C.F. Antony
Let me be blunt: there's a lot to be said about HOA in theoretical terms, it's wonderful, exciting, yet totally irrelevant: When it comes to localizing sounds, when I sit in the sofa at home, I'm not trying to shoot the second violin by sound, I just want a natural sounding, enjoyable

[Sursound] Where are Ambisonics headed / Was: Re: Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-03 Thread Andrew Levine
Hi Jörn, On May 1, 2011, at 9:39 PM, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: for me, 1st order horizontal is nice but on the brink of collapsing due to ambiguous source localosation, 1st order peri tips it over the edge. that's with my sound engineer's ear, not with my music appreciation ear. paul's

Re: [Sursound] Domestic speaker layout (was Re: Minim AD7 for sale)

2011-05-03 Thread Aaron Heller
2011/5/2 Jörn Nettingsmeier netti...@stackingdwarves.net: those slightly more speakers than necessary cases are a bit tricky... first order over a 24 hemisphere is horrible, At the 2008 demo I wrote about, other that the anomaly at the exact center, I thought it sounded pretty good. So did

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-03 Thread Dave Malham
Wow - I have a few days break and the list goes mad - and all set off by the appearance of a 30+ year old hardware box up for sale! On 01/05/2011 19:18, Martin Leese wrote My recollection from a 1980s telephone conversation with Minim was that the production AD 10 decoders did not have

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-03 Thread Dave Malham
On 01/05/2011 23:09, Richard Dobson wrote: how can localisation and separation be distinct? I think the two words are too useful to be treated as exact synonyms - that would mean one of them is simply wasted. So I would say the former is absolute - this or that degree azimuth. The latter

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-03 Thread Eero Aro
Dave Malham wrote: he used Audio Design gear himself, so decoders with shelf filters, even though it supposedly does not help over large areas...and he even used UHJ a lot. I remember John once told that instead of a square arrangement he had sometimes arranged four speakers in an arc behind

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-03 Thread Ronald C.F. Antony
On 3 May 2011, at 13:08, Richard Dobson wrote: My proposed application is not music listening as such, but sonification of particle collisions in the LHC. In the data, Z is the beam axis, and the most interesting stuff has high transverse momentum, i.e. left right up down across the beam

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-03 Thread umashankar mantravadi
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Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-03 Thread Dave Malham
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Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-03 Thread Robert Greene
Here is a post that makes sense in the real world. Of course it is intriguing to work out how to create the impression of a mosquito circling around your head. But it is really not important musically. What is wrong with stereo? 1 It is all in front 2 It is too LITTLE. Real orchestras are 15

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-03 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 07:15:29PM +0530, umashankar mantravadi wrote: in fact angelo recommended that i arrange the eight speakers as two crossed squares. two speakers in front and back, and four speakers mid bottom left and right and mid top left and right, the only problem is i do not

[Sursound] CAT5/6 Balun Construction?

2011-05-03 Thread John Leonard
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Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-03 Thread Aaron Heller
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 07:15:29PM +0530, umashankar mantravadi wrote: in fact angelo recommended that i arrange the eight speakers as two crossed squares. two speakers in front and back, and four speakers mid bottom

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-03 Thread Martin Leese
Martin Leese martin.le...@stanfordalumni.org wrote: ... I have collected information about the Minim decoders, and made it available at: https://sites.google.com/site/minimdecoders/ ... If you know of more information then please pass it on to me so that I can add it to the site. Geoffrey

[Sursound] Frequency response measurement using

2011-05-03 Thread Junfeng Li
Dear List, I am now trying to measure the frequency response of a headphone and a loudspeaker using RohdeSchwarz UPV Audio Analyzer. While, I am wondering whether I can directly get the frequency response (the ratio of input to output) using this Audio Analyzer. And is anyone have the quite