[LAU] ambidec: number of speakers and sound card configurations

[Michal Seta]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 5:56 AM,  <fons at kokkinizita.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 05:35:03PM -0700, Niels Mayer wrote:
>> The question, is it possible to have a torus shaped
>> sweet spot for the audience surrounding the "EigenSpeaker" ?
>
> Such speakers do exist, Ircam in Paris has done quite some research
> on them. They are based on AMB theory, but they do not provide AMB
> playback - what you get is a speaker that can generate multiple
> steerable beams. It's used in acoustic measurements to excite just
> part of a space, and in EA music to simulate the directivity of real
> instruments.

There is also this:
http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/research/spherical_loudspeaker_array

./MiS