Fons Adriaensen <f...@linuxaudio.org> a écrit : > And *if* I turn my head, for whatever reason, and the illusion > collapses, I'm not impressed...
I just tried turning my head while listening to XTC. I can turn it more than 45 degrees in both directions without destroying the stereo image. So if turning the head is part of the localization process, it does also work with XTC (to some extent). XTC brings out a better and larger stereo image from conventional stereo recordings, just by inserting a filter in the reproduction path and by using two small frontal speakers (not four or more speakers all around me as required by ambisonics). That's already impressive. I still don't know from experience if ambisonics is better than XTC for other than practical and ideological reasons. I hope to have a second epiphany with ambisonics, because it requires more investments and efforts to install a working system at home. I only heard a few minutes of ambisonics (rendered with the Harpex filter on a horizontal/hexagonal speakers setup), and it was interesting... I would be impressed if ambisonics could provide a better listening experience from stereo and/or 5.1 recordings. Maybe it can; is there a way to "up convert" non-ambisonics recordings to horizontal ambisonics? -- Marc _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
