On 6/3/2013 7:15 PM, William Sommerwerck wrote:

If Peter Scheiber invented the SQ encoding system that Ben Bauer so
vigorously promoted -- that's news to me. His patent

https://www.google.com/patents/US363...page&q&f=false


misses an important element of SQ, QS, and Ambisonic UHJ encoding --
quadrature phase shift. If I recall correctly, this shift reduces or
removes ambiguity between front and back signals.


My incredulous reaction:

Is it even slightly possible that William, claiming to be a graduate
E.E., (member of Tau Beta Pi* and Eta Kappa Mu honor societies no less),
is capable of actually believing that:

1. trying to encode 4 separate audio channels into a 2 channel standard
vinyl LP system and adding 90 degree quadrature phase shifts could
possibly "remove the ambiguity between the front and back signals" ??

2. "Whether purity is good or bad, the electron beams have to land
/somewhere/. In a B&W image, it might not matter much if red winds up on
blue, blue on green, and green on red. The result will be /something/
approximating a shade of gray. "

These are not the logical or technically insightful comments of a
degreed E.E. regardless of claimed honor society memberships.

These are the statements of someone who does not understand how either
audio channels or CRTs work.

Might I ask you to explain, for example, how putting a 90 degree phase
shift onto any of this audio would remove the ambiguity of front versus
back? And yes, I am aware that some but not all of the competing matrix
schemes using +/- 90 degree phase shifters in the rear made such
specious claims.

You may know how to read and quote others, but I would LOVE to hear you
explain technically how either of your hair-brained interpretations
ACTUALLY WORK from an engineering perspective. Any legitimate engineer
who knows these topics correctly could NEVER BUY INTO THIS BULL****.

*I was a member of Tau Beta Pi and shudder to think that other members
of this prestigious society could be so entirely clueless. I also am
surprised you are not or were not a member of the I.E.E.E. I was a
Senior Member for many years and began as a student member over 50 years
ago. Like the AMA for physicians and the ABA for attorneys, it is the
defacto professional organization for those who are real graduate E.E.s,
with over 400,000 members currently.