Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] surround encoding
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Oct 18 2001 - 13:17:46 EEST
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:21:01PM +0100, Richard W.E. Furse wrote:
> Now there's a subject and a half. Ambisonics is *different* to 5.1 and has
> advantages and disadvantages (mostly advantages IMHO). Much of the power of
> Ambisonic encoding is that you can find an optimal decoding strategy for
> whatever speakers are available and you don't need a hardware decoder (there
> are a number of software ones included in the CMT plugin set).
>
> Anyone wanting to find out about Ambisonics might be interested in taking a
> look at http://www.muse.demon.co.uk/3daudio.html.
Thanks, I'm very interested in ambisonics, but was put off by the price of
the equipment, looks like decoding is covered then. Do you know if its
posible to build a soundfield type mic using cheap elements, or does it
require really good ones?
- Steve
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