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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
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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.

kota1 OP
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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?

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@kota1

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.

Did you mean to say "100% of people who define immersiveness solely in terms of dancing prefer to dance to live rather than recorded music"?

Are we talking drunk or sober?

Personally I don't trust any assertion that begins with "100% of ____ (fill in the blank)".

 

 

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A stupid post that assumes what everyone likes and wants. Nonsense.

kota1 OP
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"A stupid post that assumes what everyone likes and wants. Nonsense."

 

Did you mean to say "100% of people who define immersiveness solely in terms of dancing prefer to dance to live rather than recorded music"?

Are we talking drunk or sober?

I am saying that everyone prefers a live performance over a recording of a live performance, period.

Research Shows an increased entrained physiological response to music of different speeds and moods when the listener is present with the performer, compared to listening to a recording of the same performance.

Shoda, H., Adachi, M., & Umeda, T. (2016). How Live Performance Moves the Human Heart. PLoS ONE, 11(4), e0154322. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0154322

 

 

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