On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:27:11AM -0700, Bearcat M. Sandor wrote: > Couldn't one create the sound of a fly moving through out a room simply > by adjusting the balance of 4 speakers? One could, sort of. > If so why do we need more than 4 speakers? Because you have much better results that way, using the right techniques. > I have an audio system for which i'd like to set up 4 channels. I have 2 > Anthony Gallo Acoustic Reference 3.1s and would like to swap them out > for 4 Stradas and 4 subs (with some extra money of course). You could save 50% by using 8 speakers at 1/4 the price of those, and get much better results. > If i do that and play back a 5.1 or 7.1 movie soundtrack or music disc > what am i going to not have vs a full 5 or 7 channel set up? Without some quite specialised processing you'll have a crippled result. Don't expect Pulseaudio to do the right thing, how could it ? It doesn't even know where your speakers are. Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte ! _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
