Lots of DTS surround audio on Ambisonia.com

[rondari]

Hi everyone,

My name is Etienne, I am the creator/maintainer of ambisonia.com. I thought I would drop an email here on Doom9 to let people know that there are hundreds of really cool ambisonic (surround sound) recordings/compositions available to download and listen to on ambisonia.com as DTS Surround files.

I've just completed a huge round of ambisonic to DTS translations (I translated every ambisonic file published on ambisonia)... and I was hopping that some people _outside_ of the ambisonics community might download some of these DTS Surround files and give some feedback.

All the files are wrapped in a DTS wrapper and can be played back like any DTS file, but the contents therein are actually still in the ambisonic format. This is a kind of *trial* to see if it is possible to deliver ambisonic sounds easily on standard consumer home theatre formats.

So far the feedback has been very encouraging. ... so if you are into surround sound, please do download a few files and let me know your impressions.

Etienne

[rondari]

BTW, I'm hoping no one sees this as automated spam (its not)... there are some high quality surround sound recordings that I think anyone with a good surround sound system will appreciate.

What I'm really interested in is for people to compare the quality of surround they get on standard Hollywood blockbuster movies (which you guys deal with a lot) and these ambisonically encoded recordings. My belief is that these recordings will blow you away in terms of 'surround experience'.

A recording of planes http://tinyurl.com/3yosoa

A recording of fireworks http://tinyurl.com/2slbsx

some blues: http://tinyurl.com/2uhbvv

electronic music http://tinyurl.com/2l7wo4

and classical music http://tinyurl.com/33ynvt

please try them :)

Etienne