Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale - Speaker configs.

2011-05-04 Thread Bo-Erik Sandholm
I still want to suggest a setup that I will soon have in operation, I have written about it before. It uses 10 channels, it is a hexagon in the horizontal plane with a speakers at front back. The Z is handled by for speakers, placed where the 4 hexagon side speakers will end up if the Hexago

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-04 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 05/03/2011 08:03 AM, Ronald C.F. Antony wrote: Similarly, what does a SoundField mic output? A/B format. Now translate that into 5.1. That's what's a realistic production flow. and it does not work very well. nobody who is producing 5.1 the usual way (i.e. without using a soundfield) will

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale - Speaker configs.

2011-05-04 Thread Peter Lennox
Quick suggestion: - as you're having to use more than 8 channels anyway, you're likely to be using a 16 channel card; thus, you would have some channels left to decode (horizontal only) to 3 or 4 subs Dr Peter Lennox School of Technology University of Derby, UK tel: 01332 593155 e: p.len...@der

[Sursound] HOA standards (was: Re: Minim AD7 for sale)

2011-05-04 Thread Richard Dobson
On 03/05/2011 09:18, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: .. but if you want to bring ambisonics into the industry, it's either HOA or go into a quiet corner to die. the argument that any talk of HOA will be detrimental to ambisonics uptake is sentimental BS. HOA is no black magic, and six speakers aren't

[Sursound] Frequency response measurement using Rohde&Schwarz UPV Audio Analyzer

2011-05-04 Thread Junfeng Li
uite detail instruction to configure the parameters in Audio Analyzer for measuring frequency response? Thank you very much. Best regards, Junfeng -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/2

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale - Speaker configs.

2011-05-04 Thread Bo-Erik Sandholm
Yes, I have a few woofers available BUT according to what I understand from psychoacoustics we cannot really hear directions of sound below 80 Hz, as the ear/brain is changing method of decoding soundwaves between 80 to 100 Hz? So do I really need more than a pair driven in mono (or 4) to even ou

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale - Speaker configs.

2011-05-04 Thread Bo-Erik Sandholm
>From >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_localization#Evaluation_for_low_frequencies Evaluation for low frequencies For frequencies below 800 Hz, the dimensions of the head (ear distance 21.5 cm, corresponding to an interaural time delay of 625 µs), are smaller than the half wavelength of the

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale - Speaker configs.

2011-05-04 Thread Eric Benjamin
> from psychoacoustics we cannot really hear directions of sound below 80 Hz I know that it is frequently written, but it's not true. Of the two localization mechanisms active at low frequencies, Interaural Time Differences (ITDs) are the ones that give useable localization cues in free space. 

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale - Speaker configs.

2011-05-04 Thread Peter Lennox
very briefly, I think decorrelated Lfgives better 'spaciousness', and highly correlated Lf (as obtained by feeding 'W' to subs) causes the opposite - that lack of externalisation or 'in the head' feeling Dr Peter Lennox School of Technology, Faculty of Arts, Design and Technology University of D

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale - Speaker configs.

2011-05-04 Thread Paul Doornbusch
When I first met Neville Thiele, well over 10 years ago now, he told me that one of the things he wanted to do more research in was how to reproduce LF properly in rooms so that it had the directionally we normally hear. So it would seem that at least he never believed that mono was enough below

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale - Speaker configs.

2011-05-04 Thread Bo-Erik Sandholm
I totally agree that more than 1 but probably not more than 4 subwoofers are an noticable advantage in a room for below 100Hz or infrasound Frequencies. What i am wondering/thinking of is really if our hearing do not use the clues of the overtones or distorsion overtones from subwoofer elements

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale - Speaker configs.

2011-05-04 Thread Ronald C.F. Antony
I would think that a lot of these tests assume that we hear only with the ears. But when it comes to LF, the entire body is sensitive to it. That changes the entire issue about head-size vs. wave-length, etc. At certain volumes LF is like touch, not like sound. Ronald ___