hmm - thats weird because I get this effect even if the plane wave isnt orthogonal to the array - perhaps something is configured wrongly.....
On 12/09/2012, Fons Adriaensen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 01:17:23PM +0100, Augustine Leudar wrote: > >> This is a question for those with knowledge of WFS. One of the >> properties of plane waves propagated with a single line array on a >> Wavefield synthesis system is that as you walk down the array the >> sound "follows" you appearing to emanate from the nearest loudspeaker >> . I was wondering if this was due to the precedence effect alone or if >> something else was going on as well ? > > It will be the nearest speaker only if the direction of the source > is orthogonal to the line array. > > What goes on is that the waves produced by the secondary sources > (speakers) combine into a wave as would be produced by a real > source in a particular direction and at a large distance. At > least within the bandwidth which does not produce spatial aliasing, > your ears/brain have no information at all to identify the speakers > as separate sources, so there is no precedence effect involved. > > > Ciao, > > -- > FA > > A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. > It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris > and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow) > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
