Entries tagged with “surround sound” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

It's Halloween again, and what better way to set the mood than with a new soundscape album from Mark Greenfield, aka Darwin Chamber? Thanks to intelligent, computer-aided composition, it's much more immersive than the standard serving of ghost moans, melodramatic laughter, and werewolf howls.

Did you know you can enjoy six-channel sound from iTunes? All you need is a decoder, six amplified speakers, and this squirrely software trick.

UPDATE, 2007-09-14: Our massive H2 review is now online, and it's packed with answers to the questions you asked here. Thanks again for making this such a collaborative process. We also have a new discussion area at the end of the review, so please feel free to continue this conversation over there. Zoom finally started production of its latest handheld...

While sifting through photos for tomorrow's NAMM show report, I saw this head-scratcher of a phrase near a pair of headphones: The Real Virtual Reality. The ’phones come from Beyerdynamic, a German company, and are designed to simulate surround sound. What makes them more real, I suppose, is that they rotate the simulated environment as you turn your head, thanks...

At every trade show, there's one product everyone says you have to see. The gadget that kept coming up at last month's AES conference was the Core Sound TetraMic. This tiny microphone contains four capsules arranged in a tetrahedral pattern to pick up sound in the Ambisonic format. Basically, the mics together encode front-back, left-right, up-down, and level information...