On 03/05/2011 07:39, Ronald C.F. Antony wrote:
On 2 May 2011, at 11:20, Richard Dobson wrote:
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Personally, a six-speaker horizontal-only rig is much more realistic in terms of acceptance in the home, because it still can be used for 5.1 playback, with the center-rear speaker going unused at that point. With-height is rarely a requirement, and any affordable production that may introduce a wider range of people is budget limited, and while one can get affordable line mics, entering the SoundField territory is starting to get costly, and the amount of music that actually has meaningful Z info is limited.
My proposed application is not music listening as such, but sonification of particle collisions in the LHC. In the data, Z is the beam axis, and the most interesting stuff has high transverse momentum, i.e. left right up down across the beam axis. I can do a great deal just with horizontal surround (the most obvious way of sonifying bipolar data, of which there is a lot), but most collisions are very obviously 3D in space. "Normally", jets are formed in symmetrical pairs e.g. one hard left, one hard right, but recently they have found some instances where the jets were not exactly in opposite directions, indicating (possibly) some new physics. So it will be important to tell if two sounds are exactly opposite (180 deg in effect), or at a narrower angle. There may be situations where being able to rotate the soundfield in the classic B-Format way in order to choose an alternative listener orientation would be useful.
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