Joe Bryan, Universal Audio Inc.

A Brief Statement of the Problem:

There is no system that matches and maintains the user’s needs and system capabilities with the original content and the intentions of the artist.

A Brief Statement of the Group’s Solution to this Problem.

We defined a high-level system that identifies the content developer and consumer end points and ties them together, based on artists’ and users’ intentions and/or capabilities. For example, this includes:

Intentions:

• Spatialization (Stereo/Mono/Binaural/Surround)
• Quality of Audio
  • Dynamic Range
  • Frequency Response

Capabilities:

• Number of channels/Spatialization
• Bandwidth and Storage Limits
• Delivery and Storage Formats

Action Items:

• Formalize this proposal – Joe Bryan
  • Enumerate intentions and capabilities, in order to produce a specification – the group
• Define affected parties – Peter Haller
• Get artist-producer feedback – Rory Kaplan
• Pursue formal submission to standards bodies (AES/NARAS) – Devon Bergman

Reference Material:

Listening environments:

• Stereo
  • Headphones
  • Laptop
  • Boombox
  • HiFi
• Multichannel
  • [Home] Theater
  • Car
  • Virtual
  • Gaming consoles

Renderer (headphone, speaker)
Mobility
Dynamic Range

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