{"id":24,"date":"2012-04-26T11:02:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T09:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theband.at\/?p=24"},"modified":"2012-06-12T09:40:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T07:40:05","slug":"building-a-home-wfs-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubidu.io\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"building a home WFS system"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been into spatial audio and especially Wave Field Synthesis<\/a>, ever since my neighbor Simon Katzb\u00f6ck introduced me to the concept in M\u00f6rbisch, some years ago now. There, at the Seefestspiele<\/a>, I was stunned to see how well it worked, how the voices seemed to originate from the singers, not the PA, and how realistic the LARES <\/a>system there made the orchestra feel like it would in a concert hall. M\u00f6rbisch doesn’t feature a full fledged WFS installation, it’s more like a high order Ambisonics <\/a>system that is quite unique and proprietary with a lot of fascinating technology supplied and programmed by the Fraunhofer Institute.<\/p>\n

So, since no WFS installation is available in Vienna to play around with, I decided to build my own. I went for the minimum design first, to get some experience, and also to keep the cost (A\/D converters especially) down. 16 channels would do for a first. I’m quite proud of how low I have been able to keep the costs till now. Here’s what I use:<\/p>\n