[NewMusic] Core Sound ambisonic mics

[Tom Duff]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, David Slusser wrote:

> A colleague told me he had demoed the Core system, and
> was not impressed with the capsules back when he did it.
> He recommends the soundfield system, which he said
> sounded pretty darned good on its own, outside a surround
> situation.  He also said using the matrix box, you can
> encode all the channels to a stereo pair, and then at a
> later date decode for multi channel.
> 
> http://www.soundfield.com/soundfield/soundfield.php

Sure.  The Soundfield microphone costs over $6000. The Core Sound mic is
under $1000.  (It's the price I thought was remarkable, and the whole
reason I posted the item.)  I'd be stunned if the Core Sound mic performed
as well as the Soundfield.

-- 
Tom Duff.  Deck Chair.