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RAAL showed off at RMAF 2008 this new omnidirectional speaker and it is what I would be interesting to hear. What interests me in this is the concept omnidirectivity. I have no idea if the omnidirectivity as a concept is good or bad. Previously I head two omnidirectional speakers – German Physics and MBL – both of them incredible crap.  However, it is unknown if they were crap because they were just bad speaker or because they were omnidirectional.

There is a lot of unknown in omnidirectivity. I do not claim that the new RAAL implementation is the omnidirectivity done right – I just do not know. I am not convinced also that RAAL at this point was able to get out of their omnidirectional setup the quality that is possible to get out of omnidirectional installation. I think RAAL need to unstill the speaker in a right room and spend a few months to learn how to get more interesting sound out of them. Then it would be interesting to visit them in their California demo room to learn what the omnidirectivity is all about. (I hope the Federated Mike would post some pictures of RAAL at RMAF ...)

I would not hide that I am skeptical about omnidirectivity idea but I might be wrong, I have my reasons to doubt however in the need of omnidirectional playback.  However, the omnidirectivity might be an expressive tool if it is properly used. So this is why I would be interested to hear and perhaps to learn a properly implemented omnidirectional setup.

Andy Simpson, the microphone guy, if you read it then what would be your take for microphone techniques if you know that playback would be omnidirectional? Would it require treating recording processes in a different way?

Well, the omnidirectional jury is still out…

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