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
As for my preferences in ’23: Pat Metheny Live A wash. I reject the premise over by here. Pink Floyd started performing live surround in 1967 It’s OK to love Atmos. You can keep it. Live OR canned it's about the performances to me. |
David Gilmour of Pink Floyd does Atmos: Roger Waters of Pink Floyd does Atmos: "Quite simple the best sounding concert film we ever heard" Shot of Abbey Road studio layout when they were remixing Pink Floyd in immersive audio (I use the same layout including using active speakers in the media room except my subs are not on the ceiling LOL):
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OK @stuartk , I respect your preferences. Here is a nice perspective from Giles martin on immersive audio. He says when his father mixed the Beatles records in the studio he was attempting to paint the walls with music. His description is now with atmos, they are actually bringing those walls to life. He left out the other part but if you need at least 9 speakers to bring the walls to life what are the walls like with only two speakers, well I could say flat, or less than alive (about :25 mark): |
