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Thanks Peter, great submission. I'm curious what kind of gear is needed to reproduce the ambisonic recordings accurately?

• sp332 15y ago
  The ambisonic recording is decoded by reproducing the sound pressure field where the listener is sitting. Roughly speaking, the more speakers you have for playback, the larger your "sweet spot" (where the field is approximately correct) is. So the decoder has to know where each speaker is in relation to the listener. Idealy, the listener won't be able to tell that the sound is coming from the direction of any specific speaker, because the entire sound pressure field will be recreated around their head. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambisonic_decoding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambisonic_decoding