One could play predecoded Ambisonics anywhere there's a power amp designed to take analog inputs from multichannel DVD/SACD players; which might be useful for demos where a decoder is impractical or impossible to hook into a preexisting setup.
Sent from my mobile phone On 20 Apr 2012, at 21:29, Eric Benjamin <eb...@pacbell.net> wrote: > That is a pretty cool project. > > Having said that, I don't know what I would do with one. As it stands it's a > 2-channel player, but it's possible to get a 2-channel player for less than > that. If you expand it to 8 or 16 channels, then it's unique, but I still > don't > know what I would do with it. I suppose that if I were to go to someone's > home > or facility and they had 8 or 16 speakers but no computer hooked up to them, > then it might be a good way to interface with that system using a minimum of > hardware. > > Now, if it were able to right to the flash instead of reading from it, that I > would find interesting. An 8-channel pocket recorder. I need one of those. > > Eric > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Jan Jacob Hofmann <j...@sonicarchitecture.de> > To: Sursound List <sursound@music.vt.edu> > Sent: Fri, April 20, 2012 11:54:29 AM > Subject: [Sursound] Waveplayer - 16 chnl SD-card audio device > > Dear list, > > I was pointed to a device, which is able to play audio-files of up to 16 > channels without the need of a computer as a stand-alone device. It is > basically > a SD-card player and I wonder, if this might be interesting for some on this > list. The price is about 200,- Euro, which makes it really affordable. The > file > has to be written onto the SD-card by the use of a computer and a usual > card-reader/writer, though. > The link is here: > > http://www.waveplayer.de/ > > I even talked to the person developing it and he said, that higher sample > rates > for multichannel might be featured in one of its next software-updates, as > this > would be no technical problem to provide this. > > I am quite curious what people on the list might think about this device and > if > there are even experiences or test results about it. > > All the best, > > Jan Jacob > > > sound | movement | object | > > space > sonic architecture | site: http://www.sonicarchitecture.de > spatial electronic composition | higher order ambisonic music > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 5863 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20120420/f383cafb/attachment.bin> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
