Exactly. Strictly, much stereo one hears is a bit like that - a mixture of panpotted stereo, coincident mic, spaced mic, pseudostereo effects and even mono-stuck-in-a-speaker.
Dr. Peter Lennox School of Technology, Faculty of Arts, Design and Technology University of Derby, UK e: p.len...@derby.ac.uk t: 01332 593155 -----Original Message----- From: sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu [mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Eero Aro Sent: 16 May 2013 14:56 To: sursound@music.vt.edu Subject: Re: [Sursound] The commercial future of Ambisonics Augustine Leudar wrote: > However I'm not sure I agree that our hearing cant tell the difference > between whether a sound is coming from one or several speakers I try to be more precise. If you have a normal 5.1 speaker setup around you and you have several playback devices in your use, you can drive a mono sound to one of the speakers and the listener will locate the sound into the direction of that loudspeaker. If you have a two channel stereo recording and you play it through the FL and FR speakers, the listener will hear a stereo image in front of him. If you have a discrete 5.1 recording, you can play it back through the 5.1 setup and the localization will work according to that. If you have a B-Format recording, you can decode it for example to a horizontal layout and use the four "corner" speakers. Again, localization will occur as we know it does. Now - you can hit Play on all of these players at the same time and the listener will hear a mix of your recordings regardless of their format of origin. This is what I mean by that "the hearing doesn't know" about the reproduction system. From what you have written before, I have understood that the above is exactly what you have been doing, using discrete speakers for sharp imaging. Some people think that you need to route _all of the sounds_ through the same decoder and that would reduce the localization of pinpointed phantom sources. You don't need to do that, you can feed the amplifier of a certain loudspeaker from two or several playback sources. Eero _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu 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 info...@derby.ac.uk. _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
