On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 06:55:10PM +0100, Luigi Agostini wrote:

> I hope you do not mind I answer to you both with a single email but
> the argument is the same and the question is the same too... almost.

Count me in as the the third man. My impression so far (and that
goes back some time) is essentially the one reported by Dave and 
Joern.

> You are right and I agree with you, the patent is really "soft" and
> in facts some countries are asking for clarifications, I think soon
> we must do "coming out" :-)
> We are a little company and more we are located in Italy, so please
> understand us if we try to not reveal all of our technology, a
> bigger company could decide to copy the main algorithms and we do
> not want to do legal actions and similar annoying facts.

The word 'patent' is Latin and means 'open'. Being granted a patent
means you have to reveal things, and whatever is not revealed is not 
covered by a patent.

> By the way, we use also a lot  of public technics like ITD, HF
> Damping, Doppler... Angelo Farina, maybe you know him, (he also
> writes on sursound sometimes) came in Livorno for a demo two years
> ago, and he liked how the system sounds, he said it is similar to
> Ambisonic but with also the delays calculation in real time.

I really can't see any similarity with Ambisonics, and I've learned
to take any remark made by Angelo on that subject with some grains
of salt.

> J?rn, I hope too that will be the occasion for you to listen the
> system, if you want an alternative solution, I am realizing a demo
> in DTS HD MA on Blu-ray and I will soon put the disc image in free
> download. It is 3D-EST on 8.0, I use the C and the LFE as Lsh and
> Rsh to achieve the "cube" setup. The demo are by Peter Gabriel,
> Brian Eno e NIN, in order to let to compare easily with famous
> songs...

I would come to your demo tomorrow if it wasn't so patently (there's
that word again) clear that it is a marketing exercise rather than a
scientific or technical gathering. The absence of any other systems -
e.g. a well-engineered AMB setup - to compare with makes this rather
clear.

Ciao,

-- 
FA

There are three of them, and Alleline.

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