26 Feb
2010
26 Feb
'10
7:01 a.m.
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 05:41:19AM -0500, Monty Montgomery wrote:
Forgive me, I'm a newb to practical Ambisonics
myself (just starting
to play with it, had mostly been just familiar with the theory in the
past)...
I mean a 3rd order playback system which is easy to build.
For horizontal only it means 8 speakers/amps and a software
decoder such as Ambdec. Feeding it 5.1 would require a 5.1
to AMB encoder, which is a rather simple piece of software
(just combining the input signals in the right ratios).
Ciao,
--
FA
O tu, che porte, correndo si ?
E guerra e morte !
Nothing magical will happen if you pan the 5.0
signals into
a 3rd or higher order AMB system. The results is just five
virtual speakers reproducing 5.0.
Do you really mean third order ambisonics, or do you mean
three-channel first-order ambisonics? I had been under the impression
that it was unusual to run across actual high-er order
recordings/playback systems and that most of the installed base was
first order.