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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: K-Stereo Ambience Recovery Processor
Post Subject: The dreams about a concept of ideal speaker.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/9/2007
 Antonio J. wrote: |
| Anyway, going back to the subject of the thread, why would you implement the ambiance retrieval at speaker level and not at the "pre DAC" one? After all we'd like to have from CD's something closer to what TU-X1 does. |
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Good question and the answers lie at multiple dimensions. If the K-Stereo algorithm works (and I do not see why not – the headphone people use this principle for years) and if K-Stereo does not crap in any other aspect of Sound then here are the dimensions:
1) I have no only one CD transport but also a dozen of other sources, some of them analog….
2) I feel that it is job of acoustic system to handle acoustic of reproduction enrolment. I wonder how the K-Stereo’s effects would be “rendererable” by acoustic system’s efforts and in case the delays were done by modulators and UHF analog lines. I really would like to see the spatial potency as a natural capacity of speakers instead of encoded signals. The signals might/should be “clean”. The K-Stereo unit might be a perfect device to prove the concept and to model the concept but I see the concept (if it worthy) as a final solution implemented at speaker level; implemented completely integrated with a given listening space… or even with the speakers that are initially designed with spatial reconstruction awareness.
3) Since I am a “speaker person” and it is the region where I did something and have my relative understanding, some proven success and great personal interest, then constantly in my mind am updating my view of THE Ultimate Loudspeaker Solution. Without going into details what it might be I would just mention that it should have the RT-60 mimicking delay channels among other thighs… So, it is quite possible that some kind of spatial extenders might be a part of the Ultimate Loudspeaker Solution. That is a subject that always interests me….
Peter, thank you very much for posting the link. I read it, I love it and I will read it another few times. I need to leave with this idea for a while. As you understand my objectives are not like K-Stereo proposes: “to make big is audio business” and not “how to get big sound” (I have it already) but rather to figure out “what else is possible”….
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