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

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?

@ghdprentice 

You have one of the nicest and most expensive two channel setups I have seen in the virtual systems area and have yet to embrace a far less expensive approach using atmos/spatial audio, to achieve the immersive end result, why?

@fleschler

After all of the years and dedication to two channel why are you STILL searching for an end game speaker you can afford? Why haven’t you hit this goal years (or decades) ago? I was fortunate to have stumbled across the Sunfire Theater Grand 3 processor which incorporated what Bob Carver called "side axis" or wide channels. They solved the soundstage issue for me in 2002 and I never looked back, still using wide channels today. The only issue I have with Dolby's layout below is the MLP is too far back, I prefer equidistant between front and back walls: