25 Apr
2007
25 Apr
'07
5:45 a.m.
Jens M Andreasen wrote:
What I think would be possible as an experiment though
(without
involving a budget the size of the Pope or TU-Berlin), is to place a
large amount of uniform speakers in a circle and then feed them with the
same monophonic signal. If everything works as expected, it should then
appear like the sound emerges from the center of the circular array of
speakers.
* The speakers could be a collection of ghettoblasters and kitchen
radioes with fresh batteries.
* The signal could be a local radiostation (hey, this
is /wireless/ :-).
* The location could be a park or a stadium in your city.
Would that work?
no :-D
you might indeed get a "standing" wavefield that looks the same, but the
problem is it's not a standing wave. :) listeners outside of the focal
point would hear the speakers nearer to them first, leading to phantom
images. generally, in large auditoriums, you have to be very careful
with the signals coming from the opposite direction... for instance,
"proper" ambisonics decoding calls for antiphase signals from opposite
speakers, but that falls apart outside the "sweet spot". that's why
malham et al. came up with their "controlled opposite" rendering, which
basically means that the speakers opposite a sound source are quiet.
i got a chance to listen to the wavefield synthesis system at tu berlin
for several hours (thanks torben for a late-night session!), and i found
that virtual sound sources inside the speaker array work very well for
low and mid frequencies (torben had me step inside a techno bass drum,
and it was quite astonishing), but it only works for higher frequencies
as long as you're not in between the speakers and the virtual sound
source (due to dampening i guess, and because the virtual source has not
converged correctly yet).
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