I agree with you. Hopefully it is as you have surmised. Chris Boozer
----- Original Message ---- > From: Ronald C.F. Antony <r...@cubiculum.com> > To: Surround Sound discussion group <sursound@music.vt.edu> > Sent: Wed, February 16, 2011 10:08:55 PM > Subject: Re: [Sursound] SRS Circle Cinema 3D Audio - Overview of SRS Circle >Cinema 3D Audio (CC3DA) > > On 16 Feb 2011, at 23:01, chris boozer wrote: > > > seems like a blatant rip off to me of ambisonics to me. > > If I understand it correctly, AND it indeed uses Ambisonic principles and > not >some ill-devised pseudo-soundfield-theory, THEN it's actually a real >progress, >because as I understand it, the idea of the system is that it's >self-calibrating. > > In other words, it would likely by generating some sort of IR of the room >create a decoding scheme that fits that particular room and that particular >speaker setup AUTOMATICALLY, sort of like Audissey and similar systems try to >do time alignment and EQ for the room, and taking it a step further, allowing >the surround sound to be decoded for everything from 2.0 to n.m systems >automatically after running a simple test tone sequence through the setup. > > That would be HUGE, because the biggest stumbling block even for something > as >trivial as first-order horizontal-only Ambisonics is to get it set up >properly >at the listener's home. > > Anything that automates that and has a chance of real commercial success by >being in bed with the consumer electronics manufacturers and content creators >is highly welcomed by me, because if it's a rip-off or not matters a whole >lot >less to me than whether or not this becomes mainstream, and whether or not I >stand a chance of getting music in a suitable format e.g. on iTunes DURING MY >LIFETIME. > > Because if traditional Ambisonics is any indication: no real progress has > been >made in over 30 years, and the one label that methodically pushed Ambisonic >production, Nimbus, is virtually sidelined these days. > > Ronald > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: smime.p7s > Type: application/pkcs7-signature > Size: 4850 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: ><https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20110217/68d72793/attachment.bin> > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
