Immersive Audio and How to Achieve It

@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:

kota1

Would you concede that the best performance spaces address acoustics?

You can address the acoustics of your dance floor all you like, and that's fine by me. But as I noted, many of the sonically best music venues have no dance floor at all. You might want to visit a few if you want to understand acoustics and "immersive" sound.

An acoustically well treated room + an immersive audio setup like in the dolby layout above + an itunes or Tidal subscription=

"It sounds like you are in the studio with Miles and the band"

At :20 in the video from the remixing session of Miles Davis Kind of Blue live at Capitol Studios:

https://youtu.be/FU5-ZdprCrc

1:10 in the video:

If you really love music, this is the way you have to listen to music.

Why in the world would you argue with that?