Peter, Thanks. Thinking of it as built like a sphere is very helpful and i can see how one would expand on that for more or less speakers. I mentioned the hexes because i'd swear i'd seen 3rd order Ambisonic setups with 3 hexes at 90 degree angles to each other. My memory is telling me that it might have been a recent video/article by the BBC as they were playing with the idea of Ambisonics for broadcast.
This was in the last year so if anyone has an update on weather they went with it i'd love to find out. On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Peter Lennox <p.len...@derby.ac.uk> wrote: > actually, I've always run cheap speakers! - I'd like Genelecs, or > something, but... > > I'd say, for experimenting, it's actually worth trying stuff out cheap, to > refine what it is you need. If you're not packing this rig with listeners, > then less speakers can give you a more controllable rig. > > Are you aiming at 1st order, 2nd, or 3rd? - if the last, then your 3 rows > aren't enough, but you don't need to think of it in slices like that - > you're stil going to have trouble getting sufficient top-to-bottom angular > separation.. So thing of a sphere, and work from that - for arguments' sake > (but others will lknow better than me) instead of 3x 6, you'd be better > with, say, 2, 4, 6,4,2. perhaps, even 1 3 6 3 1 > > now, subs... for 1st order resolution, horizontal onlly, you could > actually manage with 3. > I've never heard of this done, but I could even see how under resolution > could be used to run only 2 subs, at +/- 90 deg > > So, it could be that just 16 channels could give you most of what you want > - but what is it you want? > cheers > ppl > Dr Peter Lennox > > School of Technology, > Faculty of Arts, Design and Technology > University of Derby, UK > e: p.len...@derby.ac.uk > t: 01332 593155 > ________________________________________ > From: sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu [sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On > Behalf Of Bearcat M. Şándor [homethea...@feline-soul.com] > Sent: 05 March 2013 21:22 > To: sursound@music.vt.edu > Subject: [Sursound] What speakers are you using in your Ambisonic setups? > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Folks, > > I'd like to set up a 3d ambisonic system one of these days. I'm thinking 3 > hex rings for head-level, above and below. That's 16 speakers. Good studio > speakers (at least good enough that i'd listen to them on a stereo only > system) are going to run me about $750 each. That's a $12k system right > there even without 2 8-channel D/As. Then you add in the 4 subs... > > > > What speakers are you folks running so that you can afford to do this. > > > Oh, i forget that you're all mathematical scientists or professors with > tenure and therefore rich. Right? :"P > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAlE2YiUACgkQ2VfYlq5/hENuKACeM1eh5zk0gteGIjmLswr4ceZv > +zgAoIaxC9Ql2AU9+b0+Ia4Z0P6w3cT5 > =eA4H > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20130305/0e1bbdf0/attachment.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > > _____________________________________________________________________ > The University of Derby has a published policy regarding email and > reserves the right to monitor email traffic. If you believe this email was > sent to you in error, please notify the sender and delete this email. > Please direct any concerns to info...@derby.ac.uk. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20130309/ee12efe4/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
