Airsound Spatial developed at British Grove Studios

[JulesRules]

I thought it wouldn't be right to mention this in one of the ongoing Mark Knopfler threads, even if I wouldn't have heard about this without reading the discussions about the new MK releases. Mark's producer and Atmos mixer Guy Fletcher mentioned this new product several times, his brother Daniel seems to be the main driver behind the project.

Guy's comments on the Q&A site:

There IS a system (in development stage) that will deliver ‘genuine’ Atmos to the consumer at a realistic price.

Yes, it will absolutely be a consumer product, this is what is so exciting about it. It’s still in its development stages but all the demos so far have been incredibly successful.

https://newsite.airsound.com/?p=235

I'm not technically literate enough to make anything of those statements, but the descriptions on the site don't really sound like the "consumer product" Guy is touting. We'll see, I guess.

https://airsound.com/airsound-spatial-audio-system/

The way it's being described here, I find it hard to imagine how it's going to create an actual true surround field, at least with just two speakers...

https://airsound.com/airsound-spatial/

 

[DuncanS]

I'd say its trying to do with speakers (in a specially crafted box/sound bar) what the Smyth Realiser does with headphones. But, wasn't that also what Q Sound was supposed to do via normal stereo speaker set-up?

 

[LB-V]

Gosh...not making light of the technology or avhievement....but for a minute while I was reading the first article, I thought I had time traveled back to the quad era, reading an ad about the wonders and virtues of quadraphonic audio!!!

Seriously. It's a crazy world.

 

[dstiff]

Isn't that a GIGAPORT eX DAC enclosed in a 1U box? (https://www.esi-audio.com/products/gigaportex/)

 

[barfle]

Very little real technical information there, just a lot of “our stuff is fantastic” marketing hype. I’ll believe it when I hear it, and I won’t go out of my way to do that.

But I wonder if there’s enough explanation available for @chucky3042 to compare it with his system?

 

[chucky3042]

Err Um.......first I have heard about it, I will see if I can figure it out. I will report shortly!

 

[Overture]

Eh, once you distil all the words that don't say much at all, it's just a sound bar that's been split into two speakers, with an amp that does amplification.
Revolutionary.

Seems like they're basically trying to find a way to sell stereo as a premium option to the sound-bar community. But with surround, by bouncing it around the room. I'm sure it sounds fine. Probably.

D

 

[chucky3042]

Eh, once you distil all the words that don't say much at all, it's just a sound bar that's been split into two speakers, with an amp that does amplification.
Revolutionary.

Seems like they're basically trying to find a way to sell stereo as a premium option to the sound-bar community. But with surround, by bouncing it around the room. I'm sure it sounds fine. Probably.

D

Yeah, what the Bitch said