in fact angelo recommended that i arrange the eight speakers as two crossed squares. two speakers in front and back, and four speakers mid bottom left and right and mid top left and right, the only problem is i do not see a readymade decoder umashankar
i have published my poems. read (or buy) at http://stores.lulu.com/umashankar > From: r...@cubiculum.com > Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 14:54:25 +0200 > To: richarddob...@blueyonder.co.uk; sursound@music.vt.edu > Subject: Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale > > > On 3 May 2011, at 13:08, Richard Dobson wrote: > > > 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. > > Sure, in such a scenario you'd of course want Z-axis info, too. But then you > may also need a more precise and stable localization. Naive guess would be > something like two rings of six speakers at different horizontal levels would > be a reasonable minimum. > > Here's a question for the experts: > > If one considers a cube arrangement as a minimum for 3D playback, which could > be interpreted as two rings of four speakers at different horizontal levels, > then why would one choose a cube over e.g. two "rings" of four speakers that > are not only at different horizontal levels, but rotated by 45deg against > each other. In other words, a setup that in projection wouldn't be a square, > but an octagon? > > Ronald > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20110503/66b29baf/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
