AmbiophonicDSP VST Plugin Now Available

rmiller · Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 2:25 pm Post subject:

To all interested in Ambiophonic DSP, I received a couple more private communications that I'll share here to help others...

1) One with a surprising statement: that mostly he "prefered monaural to stereo for music listening!" Surprising as this statement is to me, I believe there is a simple explanation - this person likely has been long-disappointed by the lack of a compelling difference, or the artifacts, of conventional stereo (and had not yet tried Ambiophonics' fix). I suggested as an experiment he take 5 minutes to play the Ambiophonic DSP demonstration at www.filmaker.com/products.htm on a PC (or better yet hook your PC/laptop to your stereo); that he might experience the sense that stereo is not delivering immediately go away. That his perception of a very wide soundstage would place ambience (even artificial reverberation) toward the edges - perhaps for the first time delivering spacious envelopment not possible with monaural (because we hear differences between our two ears whether listening live or to a recording). Yet as with monaural, there is no "hole in the middle." If his setup were working, his listening experience with Ambiophonics would be radically different from then on.

2) Another reported his laptop sounded "OK" by itself, but it didn't work at all when connected to his home stereo (decent Onkyo receiver and JBL speakers). His speakers were laid down on a shelf (tweeter aside woofer instead of atop as the manufacturer intended, thereby creating phase, dispersion, and image problems), and close together inside a TV cabinet, so that his normal stereo listening experience was nearly monaural. I suggested he try pulling the speakers out, set them vertical and even closer together, and calibrate his channels (download the "Left/Right/Center" recording at www.filmaker.com/products.htm) at least by ear if he didn't have a sound meter. Voila! he found one channel weak; when balanced, the demo recording came alive, with sound extending way beyond the TV cabinet. He installed the plug-in and will be listening happily every after. - Robin

janderclander14 · Joined: Dec 02, 2008 Posts: 21 Location: France

mosc · Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 5:01 pm Post subject:

The more we look at jack the less it looks like a solution because it works with "jackified" applications. So, VAC may still be your best bet. The dropout problem is probably related to that, unfortuantely.

As for storing the delay for restart, no solution for that yet, but we are still looking into it.

What delay do you use? BTW.

janderclander14 · Joined: Dec 02, 2008 Posts: 21 Location: France

mosc · Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 9:26 am Post subject:

So what kind of music are you listening to and how do you like the results?

janderclander14 · Joined: Dec 02, 2008 Posts: 21 Location: France

mosc · Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:27 pm Post subject:

Yes, speakers disappearing is a tremendous thing. Listening to radio.electro-music.com, sometimes I have to look up at sounds I hear from some place in the room.

Glad you are digging it. Somewhere in your future you going to get an RME interface. Smile

Rewire, Reroute, Jack, VAC - none are really good enough for your setup, or mine. IMHO, of course. Very Happy

durwood · Joined: Apr 25, 2008 Posts: 28 Location: Chicagoland

Results on the new plugin seem alot more positve than older versions.

Now and then I come across more and more references to ambiophonics and I think they were from early impressions.

For example Siegfried Linkwitz? I know he references it several times on his site.

rmiller · Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:00 am Post subject:

janderclander14 · Joined: Dec 02, 2008 Posts: 21 Location: France

rmiller

Received a personal e-mail from a user in Switzerland who tried the several available Ambiophonic solutions and proclaimed AmbioDSP “my favourite Ambio plugin, which is well worth the money!” (Hope he posts directly on this forum more of his helpful findings.)