Audiodice: an open hardware design of a distributed dodecahedron loudspeaker orchestra
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Abstract
We present a new speaker array composed of five spherical speakers with 12 independent channels each. The prototype is open source and design choices are motivated here. It is designed to be a flexible device allowing a wide range of use cases, as described in more detail in the paper: simultaneous rendering with surround speaker arrays, artistic installations and acoustical measurements. The sources in the repository include filter impulse response for frequency response correction. The measurement methodology, based on sine sweeps, is documented and allows the reader to reproduce the measurement and correction. Finally, the paper describes several use cases for which feedback is provided, and demonstrates the versatility, mobility, and ease of deployment provided by our proposed implementation.
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