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

2011-07-21 Thread Dave Hunt
Hi again, Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:45:45 - From: Richard Lee It is true that 1st order ambisonics doesn't consider distance, with all sources being reproduced at the distance of the speakers, . synthesis, the ambisonic encoding equations do not include distance, Both of these ar

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

2011-07-21 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2011-07-21, Dave Hunt wrote: There is certainly no consideration of values outside the unit sphere. [...] Correct, and we've been here before. As BLaH points out, even the first order decoder handles distance as well as it possibly can. So does the SoundField mic on the encoding side. But