On 12/06/2011 00:34, Robert Greene wrote:
Yes that is it!
Incidentally, I would like to add a (nonmathematical)
point. I think dipoles are more or less a disaster for Ambisonics
Bass is one thing, but what dipoles mostly do is bounce sound off
the back walls(unless you were using them as subwoofers only)
in a way that creates "spaciousness", so beloved of stereo loving
audiophlies, but that blurs the actual spatial information.
In the past we had a "horizontal" array (they were actually hung from the ceiling!) of four Quad
Electrostatics. They could work well but at other times the image was completely messed up by the
reflections from the walls of the rear radiation. This was all very material dependent. Panning
directions could reverse, spurious height changes could happen and so on...beautiful speakers, but...
Dave
PS Both Peter Lennox and Richard Furse will remember that array.
These are my own views and may or may not be shared by my employer
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