Personally, for a museum or attraction install, I'd rather go for one of the long established systems, like Richmond Sound Design's AudioBox II (http://www.richmondsounddesign.com/audiobox-ii.html)
Last year I replaced an original 8 unit Audiobox install at Madame Tussauds New York, that had been running synced multi-channel playback from standard hard-drives for ten years, 18 hours a day, 364 days a year, with virtually no maintenance. The system now uses the latest version of Audiobox, which is SSD based. I've also used Audioboxes for basic B-Format playback (on-board eq, polarity switching, matrixing, etc.) with a degree of success. Plus you get one of the best back-up support in business with the designer dealing with your questions. There are other card-based playback systems out there and have been for many years: Warwick Castle's Kingmaker exhibition uses an elderly playback system that utilises CardBus memory cards which hold two minute loops and which play synchronised multi-channel sound into the exhibition. That's been going for about fifteen years, as far as I remember. I re-did the audio and music for it eight years ago, but the playback system is still the same as it was from the original install. Regards, John On 23 Apr 2012, at 09:14, Dave Hunt wrote: > It's not entirely true that you don't need a computer, as some set up > commands have to come from a computer. If you want some sort of programmed > control this would have to come from and external device. It seems that it > won't loop automatically, which would probably be required for an > installation. _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
