Following on from discussions of decoder solutions: Forgive me if I've missed this (I've been watching sursound for about 20 years, or so - but I just may have missed the odd discussion!)
Has anyone systematically studied the interactions between decoders, speaker layouts and particular rooms? I ask because, it seems to me that interactions between room acoustics and speaker positioning are known to have significant psychoacoustic (and aesthetic) effects. Informally, I've observed ambisonics working better than it had any right to, in particularly difficult rooms (big reflective empty shoebox, for example). But in respect of particular speaker layouts, (as per the discussion on avoiding too many speaker in the horizontal plane), it seems to me that there could be non-trivial interactions, so that (for arguments' sake) a particular room might benefit from 'this' speaker layout as against 'that' speaker layout. I would seem a monster task to test a wide variety of rooms each with a wide variety of speaker layouts (and I haven't even mentioned the possible variety of speaker dispersion characteristics!) - but in the long run, it needs doing - and sufficient testing might reveal 'families' of layout-room acoustic relationships that can point to underlying causal rules. If it's been done, I'd like to read it, and if it hasn't - sounds like I've just knocked together a precis proposal for a PhD project! Dr. Peter Lennox Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy Senior Lecturer in Perception College of Arts University of Derby Tel: 01332 593155 The University of Derby has a published policy regarding email and reserves the right to monitor email traffic. If you believe this was sent to you in error, please select unsubscribe. Unsubscribe and Security information contact: info...@derby.ac.uk For all FOI requests please contact: f...@derby.ac.uk All other Contacts are at http://www.derby.ac.uk/its/contacts/ _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
