Immersive Audio and How to Achieve It

@stuartk 

That's fair enough, but the science does support that premise, its physiological.

Kota1 I can sense a sorround sound set up on your post.Some like your version approach to be immerse thru this set up? I like both. I only watch sorround when I watch concerts.You can immerse yourself with two channel set up ,by near field listening if your system is musical enough to do it.

100%? I don't recall you asking me, but I guess I forgot.  There are plenty of times I'd rather hear recorded music over live, and for many reasons. 

"Immersive" in acoustic refer to spatial relation between the listener and the translation of the recording in his room acoustic...Stereo system can do it at certain precise acoustic conditions which are very complex... I experienced them at the end with a one year experiments 7 days on 7...

We can realize "immersiveness" with an acoustic room and a stereo system , not a living room generally...

The physiological reaction measured in live concert is related not so much to the spatial soundfield perception but by the presence of living musicians whom with we connected ...You will measure the same in a bad acoustic  spot of a concert hall...

I prefer to listen alone in optimal acoustic conditions...

The last concert i goes too was horrible because of the amplified sound in a super bad room... And i loved the musician... My physiological reactuion was : why did i came instead of buying his album ? 😊

@kota1

Thank you for your kind words about my system.

I think we would disagree on virtually every aspect of your assertion. Perhaps, you are just trying to be controversial.

For many years I have preferred listening to my system for any amplified music. Over the decades I have ended up at a couple rock concerts a year, as part of my job. I would typically walk… or run out after the first tune with my hands over my ears. Napkins stuffed in my ears would occationally allow me to stay for two. After ten years with season tickets to the Oregon symphony my system became so close as to be virtually indistinguishable. Then the the Oregon Symphony “upgraded” their hall with cutting edge DSP processing and were unable to resist using it during all acoustic symphony orchestra concerts… essentially destroying the wonderful acoustic sound. So, now my system sounds better. It is completely immursive.

Your idea of using multi speakers and Atmos… well, it is one of those things that sounds great on paper but isn’t remotely close to working in the real world. Other folks can point out the plethora of problems with the idea. But just from the point of view of cost. High quality sound requires top quality components. So scale up a really high quality system to have 7 or 12 or more speakers / amps and you just increased you system cost by ten times. The list goes on.

I have a home theater system with a flagship surround processor, B&W 805 speakers and two B&W 800 subwoofers. It sounds great… but not remotely in the same league as my audio system.