Hi Geofrey,
    Thanks for the info - now you mention it, VDP strikes a faint chord in
my memory, I wonder if maybe either Michael or Peter mentioned at some
point when we talking all those years ago.

Of course, you know what's going to happen next - someone is going to ask
for design info.....

      Dave

On 29 October 2015 at 16:22, Geoffrey Barton <[email protected]> wrote:

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> > From: Dave Malham <[email protected]>
> > To: Surround Sound discussion group <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [Sursound] SQ QUAD
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> > Going back to this old theme, something which slipped under my radar but
> > reappeared when I was re-reading the Integrex decoder articles was
> > Michael's throw-away statement on page 3 that "...a fully fledged
> ambisonic
> > 'variable matrix' design is under development for (such) specialist
> > applications". Does anyone (Geof Barton, Peter Craven, Peter Carbines,
> > Richard lee...) remember this or know anything about it - certainly
> nothing
> > remains in my memory, even if it was there in the first place.
>
> Certainly. It was called the 'VDP' decoder, 'Variable Directional
> Preference'.
>
> Michael and I had great fun with that; it revealed all sorts of detail in
> stereo recordings played through it, quite apart from the effect on UHJ.
> I believe that, some time after I left the Cybernetics dept, to quote
> Peter Fellgett, 'a student destroyed it by connecting 240v into the 5v
> supply'.
>
> rgds,
> Geoffrey
>
>
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As of 1st October 2012, I have retired from the University.

These are my own views and may or may not be shared by the University

Dave Malham
Honorary Fellow, Department of Music
The University of York
York YO10 5DD
UK

'Ambisonics - Component Imaging for Audio'
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