ah ok - I understand better now and agree entirely - thats kind of what I was trying to say you can mix ambisonics with vbap and any other thing you want and have the best of all world ;)
On 16 May 2013 15:55, Eero Aro <eero....@dlc.fi> wrote: > Augustine Leudar wrote: > >> However I'm not sure I agree that our hearing cant tell the >> difference between whether a sound is coming from one or several speakers >> > > I try to be more precise. > > If you have a normal 5.1 speaker setup around you and you have several > playback devices in your use, you can drive a mono sound to one of the > speakers and the listener will locate the sound into the direction of that > loudspeaker. > > If you have a two channel stereo recording and you play it through the > FL and FR speakers, the listener will hear a stereo image in front of him. > > If you have a discrete 5.1 recording, you can play it back through the 5.1 > setup and the localization will work according to that. > > If you have a B-Format recording, you can decode it for example to a > horizontal layout and use the four "corner" speakers. Again, localization > will > occur as we know it does. > > Now - you can hit Play on all of these players at the same time and the > listener > will hear a mix of your recordings regardless of their format of origin. > This is > what I mean by that "the hearing doesn't know" about the reproduction > system. > > From what you have written before, I have understood that the above is > exactly what > you have been doing, using discrete speakers for sharp imaging. > > Some people think that you need to route _all of the sounds_ through the > same > decoder and that would reduce the localization of pinpointed phantom > sources. > You don't need to do that, you can feed the amplifier of a certain > loudspeaker from > two or several playback sources. > > > Eero > ______________________________**_________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/**mailman/listinfo/sursound<https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound> > -- 07580951119 augustine.leudar.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20130516/342bfdb9/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
