>> I would say that HOA start to be usable for focused point source around > the 5th order, and gets better higher up with > the problems of then having > the speaker setup to fill it > > This is also very interesting! Can’t Ambisonics be decoded to almost any > loudspeaker array?
Not optimally. There is an ideal coverage (nb and pos of loudspeakers) that would decode optimally each setup. There are a few papers (and threads on this list) talking about that. > Did you find that adding more speakers to an Ambisonics > system helped as much as increasing the Ambisonic order? There is, as I said above, an optimal amount of speakers for each order, with too many starting to give diminishing return. The real Ambisionic specialists on this list will give you the reference I cannot find > How did you encode > and decode to 5thorder Ambisonics? The Paris 8 tools. > Did you compare to a comparable > channel-based array? Always ;-) It is never as sharp as point source. You get something with 5th order almost as sharp as the phantom image you get. That’s my experience in the 3 studios and many live settings I’ve listened them in. Jorn’s experience was very useful as I said. > Another question that came up reading these replies: what is the ideal > Ambisonics playback system? Do you mean gear, and/or position, and/or room, and/or decoder ? _______________________________________________ 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.
