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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

 

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mihorn
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OP   100% of music listeners prefer live music to recorded playback,

Agree. The live/original music is always better than the reproduced audio music.

OP    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 immersive sound is a surround sound term and means you are in the action. The immersive sound is more effect than the quality of the sound. The live music or the original music is not always immersive.

The purpose of hi-end audio is being able to faithfully reproduce the original music. The hi-end audio aims for more realistic reproduced sound than un-real wrapping around sound. The live music or the original music is not always immersive. The quality of the sound is more important in hi-end audio.

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

Yes. Everyone prefers a live performance (real live music) over the reproduced audio music. The original music is always cleanest, smoothest, and the most musical. However, we can't be in live performance always. So, we listen recordings (reproduction audio).

Alex/Wavetouch

mihorn
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OP 

More speakers & electronics etc is just more, not necessarily better.

Yep, more speakers also means more ways to screw it up, but you can screw up a stereo too. 

All speakers and audio systems in the world sound veiled and bright that includes $100k cd player, $million speakers, $100k power amp, $20k power cords, etc.

The sounds of surround receivers are not good and can't compete to the sound of a good stereo amp. Also, sounds from many inferior surround speakers are even worse. All these bad sounds from many inferior speakers are directed to a listening chair in the center. It can be something special for a short time but ears will be tired soon. 

2 channel set up is easier to make smoother musical sound and better for long term listening music.

Alex/Wavetouch

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