Immersive Audio and How to Achieve It


100% of music listeners prefer live music to recorded playback, why? A live performance "immerses" you and frees you up to move around the room, the dance floor and still be immersed. The goal posts have moved away from two speakers to an array of speakers all around as well as above you to reproduce the illusion of a LIVE performance. Why, in 2023, would anyone voluntarily use only two speakers to recreate this illusion of a live performance in a large room?

Even the artists themselves are using immersive audio in concert to WOW their audience, why not do it at home:

https://www.mixonline.com/live-sound/venues/on-the-cover-las-vegas-takes-immersive-live-part-1

 

kota1

@cleeds 

You might be surprised to learn that many of the sonically best music venues have no dance floor at all.

Would you concede that the best performance spaces address acoustics?

You underestimate physical acoustic... I used a grid of Helmmoltz tuned  resonators in my past room...

And for DSP the BACCH filters are the top of the acoustic experience  right now  ...

And my goal is not recreating "a live event"...

My goal is to retrieve the original set of acoustic trade-off used by the recording engineers TRANSLATED in my acoustic room or with my headphone ( but most headphone are badly designed for this ) ...

 

Immersiveness in acoustic is related to the basic concept of "listener envelopment" which is related to the ratio between the sound sources location and volume and the listener real and virtual position ...

 

My goal is to retrieve the original set of acoustic trade-off used by the recording engineers in my acoustic room or with my headphone...

That is how I started my acoustic journey, I e-mailed the Dubstage studio and asked how could I recreate the acoustic space of a mixstage in my media room. Owner Marti Humphrey asked for photos, sent his reply and cced Wilfreid Van Balien of Galaxy Studios who chimed in. With a little helpful coaching from Anthony Grimani who also gave me feedback the end result was exactly the type of acoustic I hoped to achieve for my room and budget.

 

For sure you started here, and i ended here...😁😊

 

To go further i will need the BACCH filter ...

By the way i dont doubt that your system is very good....

That is how I started my acoustic journey,

 

 

@mijostyn 

You were sharing how you achieved an immersive experience with two speakers in another thread, can you explain more please?