On 29 Apr 2011, at 19:15, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:

> but you are right, we are still heavily in the DIY + "slightly kludgy"
> realm. then again, most ambisonics fans will be, too. have to :)

That's large part of the problem of lack of adoption. And a lot of that is to 
blame on the Ambisonics fans themselves: the snob's won't accept anything but 
2nd or higher order Ambi, and no software or electronics maker is seriously 
going to go to that effort for something as iffy in terms of market acceptance.

Instead of pushing for the perfectly pleasant 1st order listening and recording 
experience, and thinking of 2nd and higher order once that step has 
successfully been completed, every effort to get someone to accept basic 
B-format and UHJ support, results instead of cheers in jeers, and bitching and 
whining how anything but HOA isn't good enough, until any interest in even 
supporting 1st OA is evaporated.

I sometimes wish these people could be locked away in a closet and released 
only after 1st order Ambisonics is sufficiently accepted by the audio community 
at large and the consumer electronics and computer software makers.
Maybe we might get somewhere that way.

Ronald
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