actually, I've always run cheap speakers! - I'd like Genelecs, or something, but...
I'd say, for experimenting, it's actually worth trying stuff out cheap, to refine what it is you need. If you're not packing this rig with listeners, then less speakers can give you a more controllable rig. Are you aiming at 1st order, 2nd, or 3rd? - if the last, then your 3 rows aren't enough, but you don't need to think of it in slices like that - you're stil going to have trouble getting sufficient top-to-bottom angular separation.. So thing of a sphere, and work from that - for arguments' sake (but others will lknow better than me) instead of 3x 6, you'd be better with, say, 2, 4, 6,4,2. perhaps, even 1 3 6 3 1 now, subs... for 1st order resolution, horizontal onlly, you could actually manage with 3. I've never heard of this done, but I could even see how under resolution could be used to run only 2 subs, at +/- 90 deg So, it could be that just 16 channels could give you most of what you want - but what is it you want? cheers ppl Dr Peter Lennox School of Technology, Faculty of Arts, Design and Technology University of Derby, UK e: [email protected] t: 01332 593155 ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bearcat M. Şándor [[email protected]] Sent: 05 March 2013 21:22 To: [email protected] Subject: [Sursound] What speakers are you using in your Ambisonic setups? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Folks, I'd like to set up a 3d ambisonic system one of these days. I'm thinking 3 hex rings for head-level, above and below. That's 16 speakers. Good studio speakers (at least good enough that i'd listen to them on a stereo only system) are going to run me about $750 each. That's a $12k system right there even without 2 8-channel D/As. Then you add in the 4 subs... What speakers are you folks running so that you can afford to do this. Oh, i forget that you're all mathematical scientists or professors with tenure and therefore rich. Right? :"P -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlE2YiUACgkQ2VfYlq5/hENuKACeM1eh5zk0gteGIjmLswr4ceZv +zgAoIaxC9Ql2AU9+b0+Ia4Z0P6w3cT5 =eA4H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20130305/0e1bbdf0/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound _____________________________________________________________________ The University of Derby has a published policy regarding email and reserves the right to monitor email traffic. If you believe this email was sent to you in error, please notify the sender and delete this email. Please direct any concerns to [email protected]. _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
