[Sursound] Frequency response measurement using

2011-05-03 Thread Junfeng Li
Dear List, I am now trying to measure the frequency response of a headphone and a loudspeaker using Rohde&Schwarz UPV Audio Analyzer. While, I am wondering whether I can directly get the frequency response (the ratio of input to output) using this Audio Analyzer. And is anyone have the quite detai

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-03 Thread Martin Leese
Martin Leese wrote: ... > I have > collected information about the Minim > decoders, and made it available at: > https://sites.google.com/site/minimdecoders/ ... > If you know of > more information then please pass it on to me > so that I can add it to the site. Geoffrey Barton has kindly sent me

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-03 Thread Aaron Heller
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 07:15:29PM +0530, umashankar mantravadi wrote: >> >> in fact angelo recommended that i arrange the eight speakers as two crossed >> squares. two speakers in front and back, and four speakers mid bottom left >> and

[Sursound] CAT5/6 Balun Construction?

2011-05-03 Thread John Leonard
Anyone built their own InstaSnake equivalent? If so, care to share? Thanks, John ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-03 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 07:15:29PM +0530, umashankar mantravadi wrote: > > in fact angelo recommended that i arrange the eight speakers as two crossed > squares. two speakers in front and back, and four speakers mid bottom left > and right and mid top left and right, the only problem is i do not

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-03 Thread Robert Greene
Here is a post that makes sense in the real world. Of course it is intriguing to work out how to create the impression of a mosquito circling around your head. But it is really not important musically. What is wrong with stereo? 1 It is all in front 2 It is too LITTLE. Real orchestras are 15 met

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-03 Thread Dave Malham
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Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-03 Thread umashankar mantravadi
words, a setup that in projection wouldn't be a square, > but an octagon? > > Ronald > ___ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-03 Thread Ronald C.F. Antony
On 3 May 2011, at 13:08, Richard Dobson wrote: > My proposed application is not music listening as such, but sonification of > particle collisions in the LHC. In the data, Z is the beam axis, and the most > interesting stuff has high transverse momentum, i.e. left right up down > across the be

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-03 Thread Richard Dobson
On 03/05/2011 07:39, Ronald C.F. Antony wrote: On 2 May 2011, at 11:20, Richard Dobson wrote: .. Personally, a six-speaker horizontal-only rig is much more realistic in terms of acceptance in the home, because it still can be used for 5.1 playback, with the center-rear speaker going unused at

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-03 Thread Eero Aro
Dave Malham wrote: he used Audio Design gear himself, so decoders with shelf filters, even though it supposedly does not help over large areas...and he even used UHJ a lot. I remember John once told that instead of a square arrangement he had sometimes arranged four speakers in an arc behind t

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-03 Thread Dave Malham
On 01/05/2011 23:09, Richard Dobson wrote: how can localisation and separation be distinct? I think the two words are too useful to be treated as exact synonyms - that would mean one of them is simply wasted. So I would say the former is absolute - this or that degree azimuth. The latter

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-03 Thread Dave Malham
Wow - I have a few days break and the list goes mad - and all set off by the appearance of a 30+ year old hardware box up for sale! On 01/05/2011 19:18, Martin Leese wrote My recollection from a 1980s telephone conversation with Minim was that the production AD 10 decoders did not have hand-sel

Re: [Sursound] Domestic speaker layout (was Re: Minim AD7 for sale)

2011-05-03 Thread Aaron Heller
2011/5/2 Jörn Nettingsmeier : > those "slightly more speakers than necessary" cases are a bit tricky... > first order over a 24 hemisphere is horrible, At the 2008 demo I wrote about, other that the anomaly at the exact center, I thought it sounded pretty good. So did most of the 60 or so people

[Sursound] Where are Ambisonics headed / Was: Re: Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-03 Thread Andrew Levine
Hi Jörn, On May 1, 2011, at 9:39 PM, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > for me, 1st order horizontal is nice but on the brink of collapsing due > to ambiguous source localosation, 1st order peri tips it over the edge. > that's with my sound engineer's ear, not with my music appreciation ear. > > paul's