There is still a little time - James Moorer wrote in his paper "Audio in
the New Millennium" (JAES 2000):
"In 2020 loudspeakers will know where they are".
I suppose the other point to make is that those billions of people are
blissfully unaware that a 5.1 system is "difficult to set up". It just
takes approximately three times as long to set up as a stereo system. An
approximately surround arrangement, furniture permitting, seems to work
splendidly, given the nature of the majority of film soundtracks.
Richard Dobson
On 26/09/2013 05:14, David Worrall wrote:
Hi David,
Thanks for your considered response.
I _was_ actually thinking of it autolocating the speakers. And not
necessarily just for ambisonics, actually. Some sort of a spectrum
analyser/preamplifier device that derived the correct decode/gain
controls of the real system acccording to the actual location of the
loudspeakers, decode algorithm and your preferred listening spot ...
and that self-callibrated each time you turned the system on.
Given how difficult it seems to be for billions of people to set up a
5.1 system, surely there must be a market?
I'm actually surprised that such a device doesn't already exist. Oh
well, back to the stone-age method...
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