Re: [Sursound] , ambi playback configution and calibration

2013-10-07 Thread Dave Malham
Thought the EU had mandated all phones that were sold in Europe had to have a micro usb connection for charging?? Dave On 26 September 2013 13:47, Michael Chapman wrote: > > And, it has to be ~standard~ so that any player can talk > > with any speaker. > > > > Richard Dobson > > > > An in

Re: [Sursound] , ambi playback configution and calibration

2013-09-26 Thread Aaron Heller
Not specifically Ambisonic, but Trinnov has technology for automatically tuning a surround setup. I recall them using it during the "with height" demo sessions at Recombinant Media Labs during the 2006 AES convention in San Francisco. http://www.trinnov.com/technologies/loudspeaker-room-optimiza

Re: [Sursound] , ambi playback configution and calibration

2013-09-26 Thread Marc Lavallée
The distance measurement is obviously more precise when using microphones. One camera could be used to find the speaker angles (relative to the listening position). Gavin Kearney a écrit : > Hi, > There has been many commercial products for 5.1 based on the notion of > self-calibration. > The i

Re: [Sursound] , ambi playback configution and calibration

2013-09-26 Thread Michael Chapman
> And, it has to be ~standard~ so that any player can talk > with any speaker. > > Richard Dobson > An interesting idea ( ... patents ... ) Ma daughter had to spend the last afternoon before a foreign trip driving into 'th big city' to get a new charger cable for her iPhone-Y, because she couldn

Re: [Sursound] , ambi playback configution and calibration

2013-09-26 Thread Gavin Kearney
Hi, There has been many commercial products for 5.1 based on the notion of self-calibration. The idea that you hold a set-up microphone supplied by the manufacturer at the listening position and then each speaker generates a noise burst/tone/sweep in turn thereby determining distance from listening

Re: [Sursound] , ambi playback configution and calibration

2013-09-26 Thread Richard Dobson
The point of that paper (as I read it, anyway) was not whether the technologies may or may not be available in 2020, but that they would be established and embedded such they they are almost routine, barely noticeable. In the way, for example, that taking a picture using your mobile phone is no

Re: [Sursound] , ambi playback configution and calibration

2013-09-26 Thread Marc Lavallée
Why waiting until 2020? It should be possible with available technologies. A Kinect camera (or two spaced cameras) could be used to detect the positions of the speakers from the listener's point of view, then the same Kinect could be placed in front of the listener to report its listening position

Re: [Sursound] , ambi playback configution and calibration

2013-09-26 Thread Richard Dobson
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 j

Re: [Sursound] , ambi playback configution and calibration

2013-09-26 Thread Eero Aro
Here: SpeakerAngle http://www.audioappsstore.com/ Eero ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound

Re: [Sursound] , ambi playback configution and calibration

2013-09-26 Thread Eero Aro
Given how difficult it seems to be for billions of people to set up a 5.1 system, surely there must be a market? Possibly not exactly what you are looking for, but Genelec has software for their DSP-speakers: http://www.genelec.com/learning-center/key-technologies/dsp-monitoring-systems/autoca

Re: [Sursound] , ambi playback configution and calibration

2013-09-26 Thread Peter Lennox
...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of David Worrall Sent: 26 September 2013 05:14 To: Surround Sound discussion group Subject: Re: [Sursound] , ambi playback configution and calibration Hi David, Thanks for your considered response. I _was_ actually thinking of it autolocating the speakers. And not

Re: [Sursound] , ambi playback configution and calibration

2013-09-25 Thread David Worrall
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

Re: [Sursound] , ambi playback configution and calibration

2013-09-23 Thread Dave Hunt
Hi, Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 21:50:00 +0200 From: David Worrall To: Surround Sound discussion group Hi All, I'm away from my back-up of this list (*) so please forgive if this has been answered before, but Is there - on the market, or in other form - a setup system/tool that auto configur

Re: [Sursound] ambi playback configution and calibration

2013-09-20 Thread Daniel Courville
Le 2013-09-19 15:50, David Worrall a écrit : >Is there - on the market, or in other form - a setup system/tool that >auto configures a decoder and calibrates an ambisonic playback rig >according to the (actual) position of the loudspeakers? I would say the Harpex decoder.

Re: [Sursound] ambi playback configution and calibration

2013-09-20 Thread Richard Furse
> -Original Message- > From: Sursound [mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of > David Worrall > [...] > Is there - on the market, or in other form - a setup system/tool that auto > configures a decoder and calibrates an ambisonic playback rig according to > the (actual) position

[Sursound] ambi playback configution and calibration

2013-09-19 Thread David Worrall
Hi All, I'm away from my back-up of this list (*) so please forgive if this has been answered before, but Is there - on the market, or in other form - a setup system/tool that auto configures a decoder and calibrates an ambisonic playback rig according to the (actual) position of the loudspeake

Re: [Sursound] ambi playback configution and calibration

2013-09-19 Thread dw
On 19/09/2013 20:50, David Worrall wrote: (*) Is there a way of searching across https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/? You don't even need to subscribe to the list to search it.. http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.sursound http://www.mail-archive.com/sursound@music.vt.edu/m

Re: [Sursound] ambi playback configution and calibration

2013-09-19 Thread Martin Leese
David Worral wrote: ... >> Is there a way of searching across >> https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/? Nope. There used to be, but it vanished. Regards, Martin -- Martin J Leese E-mail: martin.leese stanfordalumni.org Web: http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/ __