Re: [Sursound] Distance perception

2011-07-27 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 01:41:51AM +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote: > On 2011-07-26, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > >> I certainly don't want you to waste your money on fancy speaker >> cables. > > Never thought otherwise. That's obviously never been what we do here. ;) > >> But resistance does matter, so a

Re: [Sursound] Distance perception

2011-07-27 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:26:49PM -0400, Marc Lavallée wrote: > How large is the resulting stereo image? As large as you make it, see below. > Is your technique documented somewhere? > Can it work with a horizontal hexagon? > With 2rd order AMB? Sure. There isn't much to document, just set up

Re: [Sursound] Distance perception

2011-07-27 Thread Dave Malham
Apart from the damping problem which has been very well laid out by Fons, there is another factor which can come into play and which I documented in an article in Hi-Fi for Pleasure many years ago. The fact is that many poorly constructed cables, when hit with a bit of power, will actually produc

Re: [Sursound] speaker cable resistance [was Distance perception]

2011-07-27 Thread Neil & Marcia Adams
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Re: [Sursound] Distance perception

2011-07-27 Thread Dave Malham
I think this has a lot to do with the fact that there is never just one speaker on in the panned to ambi rig, unlike the stero case, at least for amplitude panned material. This makes the imaging less susceptible to acoustic differences between the speakers. Dave On 27/07/2011 03:26, Mar

Re: [Sursound] Distance perception

2011-07-27 Thread Dave Hunt
On 26 Jul 2011, at 17:00, sursound-requ...@music.vt.edu wrote: Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 20:18:42 -0400 From: Marc Lavall?e After reading this difficult thread (I'm replying with a new title), I have simple questions about room sizes and speaker distances. Imagine two rooms with proper acoustic

Re: [Sursound] Distance perception

2011-07-27 Thread umashankar mantravadi
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Re: [Sursound] Distance perception

2011-07-27 Thread umashankar mantravadi
lting in direct sound sound from > them arriving earlier and being louder than reflected sound. > > > Is distance perception directly related to speaker distances? > > I suspect that that it is related in the case of ambisonics, though > not directly. This is more psychoacoustics than just physics or > acoustics. &g

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

2011-07-27 Thread Neil Waterman
about 3/16" in dia). The distances were not great, 5 or 6 feet. >> The improvement in stereo imaging was huge. >> Previously the image had wandered around between the speakers seemingly at >> random, now >> it was rock solid at the point wherever it was

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

2011-07-27 Thread umashankar mantravadi
the speakers of a stereo setup some years > >> back with > >> some cheap stranded speaker cable I bought at Costco. Each core of the > >> cable was about 3 > >> times the cross sectional area of the lamp cord (each core of t

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

2011-07-27 Thread Richard
mes the cross sectional area of the lamp cord (each core of the speaker cable was > >> about 3/16" in dia). The distances were not great, 5 or 6 feet. > >> The improvement in stereo imaging was huge. > >> Previously the image had wandered ar

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

2011-07-27 Thread umashankar mantravadi
> >>> feedback, within the audible range. > > >>> > > >>> What is it that I'm missing? > > >> I swapped out some lamp cable on the speakers of a stereo setup some > years back with > > >> some

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

2011-07-27 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 05:52:58PM +0530, umashankar mantravadi wrote: > havent you heard of tired electron distortion ? (TID). the electrons in > speaker wire get tired moving back and forth and not going anywhere. the > solution is to disconnect the speaker every few hours connect a battery o

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

2011-07-27 Thread Richard
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Re: [Sursound] Distance perception (really speaker wire discussion!)

2011-07-27 Thread Michael Chapman
Am I missing something? You send electrons and the speaker cone moves out, o.k. It comes back by itself. But surely you want it to move _in_ as well? How do you do that without positrons. (I think that's right, most things in surround sound seem counter-intuitive: So I doubt if it is positrons o

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

2011-07-27 Thread Robert Greene
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Re: [Sursound] Distance perception (really speaker wire discussion!)

2011-07-27 Thread Thomas Wilkinson
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Re: [Sursound] Distance perception

2011-07-27 Thread Marc Lavallée
Speaker wiring really is a hot topic on all audio related forums. Next time I'll use the term "speaker wire" instead of "lamp cord". :-) For a small and inefficient Kef satellite speaker (3" with a tiny coaxial tweeter and internal crossover circuit), unable to reproduce frequencies lower that 12

Re: [Sursound] Distance perception

2011-07-27 Thread Marc Lavallée
Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:53:18 +, Fons Adriaensen wrote : > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:26:49PM -0400, Marc Lavallée wrote: > > > How large is the resulting stereo image? > > As large as you make it, see below. In your earlier post you mentioned that you can't explain why you like virtual speake

Re: [Sursound] Distance perception

2011-07-27 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 07/27/2011 04:26 AM, Marc Lavallée wrote: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:32:26 +, Fons Adriaensen wrote : The thing is that I very much prefer listening to stereo using two virtual speakers panned into 3rd order AMB rather than sending L,R directly to two of the speakers. It's very interesting!

Re: [Sursound] Distance perception

2011-07-27 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 01:19:50PM -0400, Marc Lavallée wrote: > In your earlier post you mentioned that you can't explain why you like > virtual speakers better than using real speakers. Can you describe some > perceived differences? For example, how are rendered mono signals; are > they right i

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

2011-07-27 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2011-07-27, umashankar mantravadi wrote: havent you heard of tired electron distortion ? (TID). the electrons in speaker wire get tired moving back and forth and not going anywhere. the solution is to disconnect the speaker every few hours connect a battery one side and short the other, so

Re: [Sursound] Distance perception

2011-07-27 Thread Scott Wilson
On 27 Jul 2011, at 18:33, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 01:19:50PM -0400, Marc Lavallée wrote: > >> In your earlier post you mentioned that you can't explain why you like >> virtual speakers better than using real speakers. Can you describe some >> perceived differences? For e

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

2011-07-27 Thread dave . malham
If you have a suitable LiOn battery pack, shorting the terminals out with the cable perks up most the tired electrons - and the subsequent explosion will remove any that are too far gone... On Jul 27 2011, Sampo Syreeni wrote: On 2011-07-27, umashankar mantravadi wrote: havent you heard of t

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

2011-07-27 Thread Marc Lavallée
le resistance shifting their operating point much, even > > >>> with feedback, within the audible range. > > >>> > > >>> What is it that I'm missing? > > >> I swapped out some lamp cable on the speakers of a stereo setup > > >> some y

Re: [Sursound] Distance perception

2011-07-27 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 06:50:03PM +0100, Scott Wilson wrote: > Do you find it varies with material? People don't always say > it this way, but sometimes increased localisation blur is nice! Good question, but I can't give a definite answer. Most of the material I've been working on there is co

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

2011-07-27 Thread David Worrall
I have been browsing this list long enough to observe that this phenomena only occurs (or at least is only reported, on this list, albeit with annual regularity) in Northern Hemisphere summers. Down under, the summers are so hot that the electrons want to pass through cable as quickly as possib

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

2011-07-27 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2011-07-27, dave.mal...@york.ac.uk wrote: If you have a suitable LiOn battery pack, shorting the terminals out with the cable perks up most the tired electrons - and the subsequent explosion will remove any that are too far gone... A few surprising shocks ought to be enough to shake the mo

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

2011-07-27 Thread Paul Doornbusch
The shock, and potentially the most snake-oil, could be from the $40,000 for these Galileo speaker cables (poor old Galileo probably does not even get any royalties from them using his esteemed name): http://www.synergisticresearch.com/galileo-system/galileo-system-speaker-cable/ reviewed here h

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

2011-07-27 Thread Danny McCarty
Funny, I read the company's name as "Synthetic Research". Much more appropriate. On Jul 27, 2011, at 3:35 PM, Paul Doornbusch wrote: > The shock, and potentially the most snake-oil, could be from the $40,000 for > these Galileo speaker cables (poor old Galileo probably does not even get any > r

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

2011-07-27 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 07/28/2011 12:35 AM, Paul Doornbusch wrote: The shock, and potentially the most snake-oil, could be from the $40,000 for these Galileo speaker cables (poor old Galileo probably does not even get any royalties from them using his esteemed name): http://www.synergisticresearch.com/galileo-system

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

2011-07-27 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 07/28/2011 05:25 AM, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: On 07/28/2011 12:35 AM, Paul Doornbusch wrote: The shock, and potentially the most snake-oil, could be from the $40,000 for these Galileo speaker cables (poor old Galileo probably does not even get any royalties from them using his esteemed name)

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

2011-07-27 Thread dave . malham
Hang on, hang on - if the electrons exceed the speed of light then either a: their mass will go infinite and the cable will implode into a mini black hole or b: they will decay into tachyons resulting in the sound coming out of the speaker before it has even been recorded Dav M. On Ju

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

2011-07-27 Thread dave . malham
Arghhh - I shouldn't have let this out of the bag - there's clearly a _massive_ EU research funding opportunity here - now, how do I go about obtaining time on the large Hadron Collider??? Dave M. On Jul 28 2011, dave.mal...@york.ac.uk wrote: Hang on, hang on - if the electrons exceed the