Re: [Sursound] Dolby Atmos audio recording on sale...

2015-12-07 Thread Douglas Murray
Atmos has a 9.1 “bed" (7.1 with two ceiling arrays), and more objects than speakers. Therefore each speaker could have an object dedicated to it. Each playback space is different though, so Atmos interpolates objects between available speakers to “render" desired pan location to actual monitor s

Re: [Sursound] Accompanying video display

2019-05-15 Thread Douglas Murray
As a film sound designer and fan of spatial sound, I think it’s very important for cinema sound to be mixed and reviewed in the same type of environment as a movie theatre, in other words with a projection screen and the front speakers behind the "acoustically transparent" screen. Working with a

Re: [Sursound] Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.

2019-05-27 Thread Douglas Murray
> On May 27, 2019, at 12:09 PM, mgraves mstvp.com wrote: > > See also Dolby Atmos. Yet another triumph of marketing over reality. Dolby is > especially good in that arena. > > Michael Graves Michael, Are you referring to the Dolby Atmos sound bars and ceiling bouncing speakers? If so I agre

Re: [Sursound] [ot] [rfc] about headphones

2012-07-23 Thread Douglas Murray
pare+Headphones It looks like the testing system is consistent. I don't know enough to interpret the results so as to predict which will sound good enough to use as a reference. Comfort and durability are not on the chart! Douglas Murray On Jul 23, 2012, at 10:31 PM, "Ronald C

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic Audio - Interactive Installation

2019-09-28 Thread Douglas Murray
Hi Michelle, I believe the Waves NX toolkit allows only for head tracking around a point. It’s accelerometer technology doesn’t allow for movement within a room, but only head turns and tilts. So you wouldn’t be able to use the Mobius headphones to track variable proximity to different virtual

Re: [Sursound] Binaural rendering of an Eigenmike recording

2020-05-21 Thread Douglas Murray
Dear Jens, That sounds really good. Best, Doug > On May 21, 2020, at 9:03 AM, Jens Ahrens wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > … and another post from me. > > Here’s a quick 2-min video of what binaural rendering of an Eigenmike > recording can sound like for those of you who haven’t heard this

Re: [Sursound] contact with Umashankar -

2022-11-21 Thread Douglas Murray
Jim, Umashankar responded to my emails in February. umashanks at gmail dot com D > On Nov 21, 2022, at 8:34 PM, James Mastracco > wrote: > > Hello - > > Is anyone in touch with Umashankar? I want to send my Bramha in for > recalibration, but I am not getting a response writing to the e

Re: [Sursound] ASA Academy short course on “Fundamentals of Binaural Hearing” Survey

2023-04-19 Thread Douglas Murray
The survey link supplied gives me an error when I click on it, as follows: Invalid Dynamic Link Requested URL must be a parseable URI, but possibly incomplete to be a DynamicLink. If you are the developer of this app, ensure that your Dynamic Links domain is correctly configured and that the p

Re: [Sursound] ASA Academy short course on “Fundamentals of Binaural Hearing” Survey

2023-04-19 Thread Douglas Murray
t; > Alan > > From: Sursound On Behalf Of Douglas Murray > Sent: Wednesday, 19 April 2023 6:19 PM > To: Surround Sound discussion group > Subject: Re: [Sursound] ASA Academy short course on “Fundamentals of Binaural > Hearing” Survey > > The survey link supplied gives

Re: [Sursound] ASA Academy short course on “Fundamentals of Binaural Hearing” Survey

2023-04-21 Thread Douglas Murray
i Douglas, > > I’m not 100% sure I understand what you mean. Could you elaborate? > > Kind regards > > Alan > > From: Sursound On Behalf Of Douglas Murray > Sent: Thursday, 20 April 2023 3:50 PM > To: Surround Sound discussion group > Subject: Re: [Sursound] AS

Re: [Sursound] ASA Academy short course on “Fundamentals of Binaural Hearing” Survey

2023-05-01 Thread Douglas Murray
f. > > Kind regards > > Alan > > From: Sursound <mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu>> On Behalf Of Douglas Murray > Sent: Friday, 21 April 2023 6:14 PM > To: Surround Sound discussion group <mailto:sursound@music.vt.edu>> > Subject: Re: [Sursound] ASA A