Re: [Sursound] Question about plane waves, and the precedence effect

2012-09-22 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2012-09-12, Augustine Leudar wrote: This is a question for those with knowledge of WFS. One of the properties of plane waves propagated with a single line array on a Wavefield synthesis system is that as you walk down the array the sound "follows" you appearing to emanate from the nearest l

Re: [Sursound] Question about plane waves, and the precedence effect

2012-09-22 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2012-09-12, Fons Adriaensen wrote: It will be the nearest speaker only if the direction of the source is orthogonal to the line array. Granted. But you'll have to grant that there is then a direction incident to the rig where the source still seems to follow you from a direction not even

Re: [Sursound] Question about plane waves, and the precedence effect

2012-09-22 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2012-09-12, Augustine Leudar wrote: thanks Fons Adding to Fons, who is pretty much always on the mark... another question is - is our auditory system able to take account of the curvature of a wavefront to estimate the distance of a source or does it only use other cues such as the spekt