Re: [Sursound] Any experience with dome acoustics?

2013-02-18 Thread Neil Waterman
Listeners could be anywhere from more or less prone (floor level), through seated to standing, but located at the center of the dome. The main focus will be the front 90 degree arc, if that helps. Thanks, Neil On Feb 18, 2013, at 12:15 PM, Michael Chapman wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> Does any

[Sursound] Any experience with dome acoustics?

2013-02-18 Thread Neil Waterman
Greetings, Does anyone on the list have prior experience installing ambi-based 3D sound into 'dome' shaped replay environments? Any tips, specifically on speaker placement, approaches, etc. The problems I am facing include a 12 foot 240 degree partial dome made of fabric, an 18 foot 240 degr

[Sursound] Blue Ripple Sound

2012-09-26 Thread Neil Waterman
Hi All, Are any of the folks from Blue Ripple Sound lurking on this forum? If you are, or anyone else has contacts with them, could you ping me back? Thanks! - Neil ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/lis

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-11 Thread Neil Waterman
We have been using ambisonics for several years now to provide immersive soundfields for use within the flight simulation and training environments. Prior to this we were using gain panning that was restrictive and highly coupled to each installation. The use of ambi allows us to port a model fr

Re: [Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please?

2012-04-01 Thread Neil Waterman
I agree totally with Robert here. Most of my work mates have 5.1 set-ups at home, but would never be bothered to have anything that required more thought, so bring on the 5.1 mixes of ambisonic source material and at least let the masses get a listen. Cheers, Neil On 4/1/2012 6:44 PM, Rober

Re: [Sursound] question about simple equation

2012-03-20 Thread Neil Waterman
Hi Giuseppe, Glad your sense of humor has survived your first skirmish with the "big brains" here on the Sursound forum... don't ever be put off or feel intimidated here - ask your questions with abandon (there is no such thing as a bad question... etc). Just occasionally you might need to h

Re: [Sursound] Distance perception (really speaker wire discussion!)

2011-07-28 Thread Neil Waterman
The review comments on Amazon for the Audio Quest K2 speaker cable are very entertaining in the most: http://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-K2-terminated-speaker-cable/product-reviews/B000J36XR2/ Certainly more interesting than some dubious pseudo-expert 'review' - Neil On 7/28/2011 1:03 PM,

Re: [Sursound] Distance perception (really speaker wire discussion!)

2011-07-27 Thread Neil Waterman
I wrote the following as a guide for internal use at my work-place a few years back: One "don't" that I hold close is this: Don't be mislead by the many "snake oil and, smoke and mirrors" cable vendors that seem to imbue speaker cables with magical (and astronomically expensive) properties. No

Re: [Sursound] the recent 2-channel 3D sound formats and their viability for actual 360 degree sound

2011-07-09 Thread Neil Waterman
Totally agree 100%. Personally I would state that I have a totally different experience when listening to the same recordings via loudspeakers versus headphones. Headphones rarely give me a "the orchestra/band" is in front of me presentation (and no it is not a function of cheap or crappy he

Re: [Sursound] the recent 2-channel 3D sound formats and their viability for actual 360 degree sound

2011-07-09 Thread Neil Waterman
ML: "Maybe it can; is there a way to "up convert" non-ambisonics recordings to horizontal ambisonics?" If you down sample a 48kHz recording to 16kHz what happens? All the audio information above 8kHz is lost right? If you up convert back to 48kHz can you recover the bandwidth lost? No. You ju

Re: [Sursound] the recent 2-channel 3D sound formats and their viability for actual 360 degree sound

2011-07-08 Thread Neil Waterman
My personal opinion: a) 3D sound from 2 speakers Rubbish. Unless energy is arriving from the general direction of the supposed source, the best any system can do is present some psycho-acoustically confusing cues that attempt to fool the brain, but sadly (for the 2-channel snake-oil folk) the

Re: [Sursound] Fwd: Bass Problem in crosstalk cancellation

2011-06-09 Thread Neil Waterman
My home listening room is 20ft x 20ft sqr (6.6m x 6.6m). Originally I was fooled into thinking directionality was not significant at low/sub-bass frequencies ... until I tried it. I now use four subs one at the approximate mid-point of each wall (somewhat adjusted to accommodate the domestic

Re: [Sursound] Test message

2011-05-22 Thread Neil Waterman
Rapture apparently skipped me at least, but no there was nothing since your last post John - Neil On 5/22/2011 10:08 AM, John Leonard wrote: So was there anything between my post on the 19th about Rycote wind-jammers and my test message? Or has everyone else succumbed to The Rapture? Regard

Re: [Sursound] Exciting news anyone?

2011-03-24 Thread Neil Waterman
Oh, the suspense of it all I'm all of a tizz - Neil On Mar 24, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Svein Berge wrote: > Hello! > > Hold your horses. There will be news coming out next week! (I'm trying to > implement a press strategy here... :-) > > Svein > > > On 24. mars. 2011, at 15:02, Andrew Levine

Re: [Sursound] new Ambisonic facility in Parma

2010-12-07 Thread Neil Waterman
Eric - please tell me this was an honest attempt at 'humor'??? P.S. Congrats Fons, I surely hope to make over to Italy and have a visit to Parma high on my list, more so now! On Dec 7, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Eric Benjamin wrote: > Congratulations! And great photos. But what's that piece of gear o