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Re: for all you high end surround heads out there

Subject: Re: for all you high end surround heads out there
From: Dan Dugan <>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:05:24 -0700
Lang Elliott, you wrote:

>I believe that to have a sweet spot big enough to walk around the entire
>room, one would need sound sources that originate from well beyond the
>confines of the room. Otherwise you can't get around the fact that as you
>approach a particular speaker, it's output will dominate.

How much depends on the separation of the channels (mike directivity)
and the time delays (mike spacing).

>Of course, one could perhaps envision having hundreds of speakers, all wit=
h
>their own discrete signals. But this would be quite impractical.

Maybe not in 2014...

-Dan Dugan



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