On 16 Feb 2011, at 23:01, chris boozer wrote: > seems like a blatant rip off to me of ambisonics to me.
If I understand it correctly, AND it indeed uses Ambisonic principles and not some ill-devised pseudo-soundfield-theory, THEN it's actually a real progress, because as I understand it, the idea of the system is that it's self-calibrating. In other words, it would likely by generating some sort of IR of the room create a decoding scheme that fits that particular room and that particular speaker setup AUTOMATICALLY, sort of like Audissey and similar systems try to do time alignment and EQ for the room, and taking it a step further, allowing the surround sound to be decoded for everything from 2.0 to n.m systems automatically after running a simple test tone sequence through the setup. That would be HUGE, because the biggest stumbling block even for something as trivial as first-order horizontal-only Ambisonics is to get it set up properly at the listener's home. Anything that automates that and has a chance of real commercial success by being in bed with the consumer electronics manufacturers and content creators is highly welcomed by me, because if it's a rip-off or not matters a whole lot less to me than whether or not this becomes mainstream, and whether or not I stand a chance of getting music in a suitable format e.g. on iTunes DURING MY LIFETIME. Because if traditional Ambisonics is any indication: no real progress has been made in over 30 years, and the one label that methodically pushed Ambisonic production, Nimbus, is virtually sidelined these days. Ronald -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 4850 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20110217/68d72793/attachment.bin> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
