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On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 05:41:19AM -0500, Monty Montgomery wrote:

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> 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)...

>

> > 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.

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).
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