On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 14:01 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
  On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 01:04 +0200, Arnold Krille
wrote:
  We are not talking about 5.1 or 7.1 here. These
suck big time.
 We are talking about ambisonics vs. binaurals vs. simple stereo here! 
 Ok, I noticed this.
 Fon's AmbDec is the player for the files from
 
http://www.ambisonia.com/?!
 I guess a friend who lives near to my home has at least 8 outputs for an
 Envy24 sound card and at least a JBL 5.1 setup, so the 5.1 speakers
 could be used for a minimalist ambisonics. 
Yes. Fons ships an ambdec configuration for playing in a 5.1 setup (it
is not optimal because the back speakers in a 5.1 setup are too far
apart but it works - I use it at home). Of course it assumes that the
5.1 setup is correct. This link has a diagram of the speaker angles:
  
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/5.1
-- Fernando