On 04/30/2011 02:12 AM, Ronald C.F. Antony wrote: > On 29 Apr 2011, at 19:15, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > >> but you are right, we are still heavily in the DIY + "slightly >> kludgy" realm. then again, most ambisonics fans will be, too. have >> to :) > > That's large part of the problem of lack of adoption. And a lot of > that is to blame on the Ambisonics fans themselves: the snob's won't > accept anything but 2nd or higher order Ambi, and no software or > electronics maker is seriously going to go to that effort for > something as iffy in terms of market acceptance. > > Instead of pushing for the perfectly pleasant 1st order listening and > recording experience, and thinking of 2nd and higher order once that > step has successfully been completed, every effort to get someone to > accept basic B-format and UHJ support, results instead of cheers in > jeers, and bitching and whining how anything but HOA isn't good > enough, until any interest in even supporting 1st OA is evaporated. > > I sometimes wish these people could be locked away in a closet and > released only after 1st order Ambisonics is sufficiently accepted by > the audio community at large and the consumer electronics and > computer software makers. Maybe we might get somewhere that way.
i sometimes wish people who have been advocating first-order ambisonics for 30 years and failed miserably could be locked in a closet and let me and others get on with their work, to be released only after HOA has gained some foothold in the industry (yeah, i know, that can be a *looooong* time). tongue firmly in cheek, jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister (VDT) http://stackingdwarves.net _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
