On Sat, 15 Sep 2018 14:52:03 +0100 Chris Woolf <ch...@chriswoolf.co.uk> wrote:
> How open these sort of products can be in terms of internal architecture > and calibration is another (commercial) problem. At least some secrecy > is essential to their business model, to avoid making reverse > engineering too easy... and therefore losing the mass market that their > product has to be based on. I read your "it's the economy, stupid" argument. Now there's a market. Hallelujah. Consumers of the world, praise secrecy. My point is that all the hardware is available to build an Ambisonics microphone, there's no fondamental research to be done (at least for a simple FOA microphone), and Ambisonics is patent free. That's exactly why Zoom was able to create a new consumer product. There's probably more plastic than anything else in this microphone. It will good enough, and a lot of fun to use, but still... The missing "soft" part is calibration... Even if calibration becomes common knowledge, there would be people making money offering calibration services; the end of secrecy is not the end of economy. > None of this appeals to the artisan in most of us, but the reality of it > cannot be ignored either. Like sound, reality have directional components; we're in 2018, not in 1980, and there's alternatives. Marc _______________________________________________ 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.
