On 01/05/2011 22:22, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
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But as the sound engineer who's expected to provide a solution I'm
not in a position to argue about this. And from the same perspective
there is another point to consider. What if you have not just a
single piece requiring some ad-hoc speaker placement, but three or
four in the same concert, each of them having their specific
requirements ? In that case I (as the sound engineer) would want to
use a technology that allows me to cover all of them without having
to physically move speakers and rewire the whole setup for each
piece. And that is exactly what using HOA provides in such a
situation - it abstracts the hardware. This is a point made very
strongly by Joern Nettingsmeier in various papers and reports about
his work, and I couldn't agree more with what he writes about this.
OK. As it happens my application is/will be purely synthetic (muons up
there, electrons down here, top quarks somewhere else entirely, and the
Higgs of course centre stage front) so ostensibly I can use whatever HOA
order I like. I do ~really need~ to know how few speakers I can "get
away with", as that is what actually costs money! The Allosphere uses
somewhere around 500 speakers; I need to reduce that number just a tad;
to single figures if possible so I can put it in a hatchback with the
back seat down... or the whole idea of it is more than a little moot and
I will stick to stereo.
Richard Dobson
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