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3D stereo sound with 4 speakers + room correction

Hi all,
I´m Johnny - a long time reader of Audiogon, hifi geek and music producer from Denmark - and I have a "different" question to all of you Audiogoner´s out there.
Have anyone tried to do a stereo system - but with 4 speakers and room correction + time alignment? Fx 4 (same) speakers to 4 monoblocks or 2 power amps from a preamp + room correction. Maybe you´ve just tried with 4 speakers and no room correction - anyways - let me hear your experiences.
I´m thinking of - sometime in the future - if funds and space allows it - to do a system like that. I would put 2 speakers as fronts and 2 speakers as side speakers. I imagine that the room correction and time alignment would make it possible to achieve a 3D stereo sound that reaches your sweetspot at the same time - but still in stereo. The sound stage would be almost all around you and massive.
Is this completely nonsense or would it make sense to do a system like this?
Ps. If I had the money - I´m thinking - Soundlab U1 speakers + 2 or 4 JL Audio f113 subwoofers and some great amplification + source. We don´t have Soundlab speakers here in Denmark so I have yet to discover the sound of them - though I have heard both the biggest Magnepans and Martin Logans - and several other high end speakers incl. MBL (the big ones) Adam (reference setup) Avantgarde (the big system). My own speaker are Audio Physic Scorpio - and I´m actually very pleased with them and I will keep them for a while.
Please let me know your thoughts on my question.
ps. and thanks for letting me dream away in the member systems pages :-)

Regards
Johnny
Denmark
js1973
carlos269
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Johnny,
Please take a look at this website for some insight on what has been done and tried in this realm:

http://www.ambiophonics.org
apachef1
164 posts
 

Hi Johnny

The idea is interesting and time alignment will be important. How do you plan on achieving the room correction part to the sound?

I almost think you are talking about crosstalk cancellation to achieve room correction?

Just trying to see where we are going with the idea thats all, its very interesting to me as I always thought to achieve the concert hall sound it would require one to start with two pairs of identical speakers but never experimented with this theory.

Ed
js1973 OP
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Hi Carlos and Ed.

Thanks for your responses.

@ Carlos - very interesting link to the Ambiophonics page - I will read more into it during the weekend. I see that Tact is doing a device to provide concert hall "feeling". They are also known for doing good digital room correction.

@ Ed - For the room/time correction part I would use digital room correction - like provided by Tact http://www.tactlab.com/DRC/drc.html or similar. There will be loads of those products from different companies in the future - I´m sure :-) And I also know that it´s getting more popular in music production - with good results.
I´m not sure what crosstalk cancellation means in english - sorry? My father though has a setup with 4 speakers - BUT - he kind of blew it regarding stereo perspective - since he has connected the speakers to a receiver that only lets him connect to left and right - respectively. Which means that when he´s in the middle of the room he has to face one of the speaker sets to get real stereo - and the other set in the back of his head - is kinda in the wrong phase I guess.
Well he doesnt care to much about since he´s not a sound freak - good for him ;-).
If room correction - and more important the time and phase is done correct by some digital unit - fx the the link to the page Carlos gave us - I´m sure it could be a great experience - but I´m not sure if we should have the extra pair of speakers on the side or in the back.

Johnny
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