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Ok ya got me Sennheiser is the best microphone manufacturer ever ( they also own Neumann). This mic has the capsule to close also but Sennheiser can support the mic with accessories like windscreens blimps and shock mounts that make all the difference. If you wanted to go high end look at this. Schoeps is also a very good company.

Surround recording should be recorded with a fake head in a binaural format because that is how we hear all other recordings are improper. They may sound wonderful but they aren’t accurate by definition. I have done very few surround recordings but adding the channels by force for the XYZ axis information to be interpreted by your brain somehow to me seems like looking down the wrong

A recording with a head and torso simulation would only work for playback if listened to on headphone corrected for equivalent flat response. Even then, it will only be approximate for any person as it is not their head, torso, or pinna.

For the Spatial Mic, they don’t seem to be tied to ADAT.

No need for expensive multi-microphone & preamp setups – just plug-in and record with either Dante audio networking or USB/ADAT models.

I had this bookmarked if anyone is interested:

https://www.dpamicrophones.com/mic-university/immersive-sound-object-based-audio-and-microphones

I vaguely remember a paper that discussed using 4 omni microphones in a pyramid shape with a lot of signal processing to extract objects for surround. I did a search but could not find it quickly.

With video we have gone from HD to 4K to 8K

With audio we have gone where? Form 44 to 96? Form 2 channel to surround to Atmos? Developments in cameras are helping video progress.

Regarding the log jam in making a recording sound dynamic maybe a better microphone will help alleviate the need for so much technology on the consumer end.

I would love to be able to go out and by a new 8K TV, a pair of active speakers (or more) with an HDMI/digital/RCA input and a remote and be done.

@kota1 ,

For an 85" TV, the recommended THX viewing distance is 9.5 feet. For an 8K set,  you need to be about 3 feet away to get the full advantage of the resolution. For a 4K set, you need to be about 5 feet. HD, about 11 feet. A 4K set makes sense to get the best resolution at realistic viewing distances. 8K for home really does not make sense.

It looks like 8K LED\LCD in Europe may be dead in the starting blocks at least in European sized sets. They won't pass efficiency requirements due to the high light loss from the reduced aperture. Don't remember, but expect at 85" you should still have a big aperture if everything scales, but maybe there are some limitations. The 8K, 85" SONY uses 50% more power than the 4K.

Not sure 8k video gives you other benefits aside from resolution like high resolution audio give you other benefits like sustained envelopes (a bell will ring longer).

@thespeakerdude You are right to say that a recording done with a dummy head has to be listened to on headphones, your job is to figure our why. All the directional information for a soundstage is in a binaural recording how come smart guys like you can't reproduce that on speakers with accurate time alignment, not from the speakers standpoint but from the brains standpoint. 35 years ago I went to and AES convention and one of the vendors was showing what they said was new technology in speaker object placement they said they had taped into what they called -head tones- to make it possible. Do you remember that at all it seemed to never really catch on but the demonstration was amazing we wore headphones and were given a haircut it really felt like we were all getting a hair cut simply through the sound.