Immersive Audio and How to Achieve It

@kota1

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

Well I don’t. There are far too many variables.

@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)".

@kota1 

I know when I'm immersed and when I'm not -- I most certainly do not require a scientist to perform or validate such assessments for me. 

@kota1

I watched the video.

Is the difference between us that I view immersion more in terms of the capacity of the listener while you seem to view the listener more as a passive factor, with technology facilitating immersion? Or perhaps we define immersion differently. I don’t need to have my walls "painted with sound" in order to experience what I describe as immersion. This sounds like a remedy for people’s senses having become dulled.

If one is esthetically sensitive by nature, as I am, and has experienced making music, as I have, there is no need for any "added stimulation". I’m reminded of a current local Van Gogh exhibit I read about, which incorporates blowing up and projecting his paintings onto museum walls, so people can "walk through them". As a life-long art lover and someone who's been involved in drawing, printmaking and photography, this strikes me as very odd -- that people can only perceive and appreciate art when it’s turned into an IMAX experience. 

@kota1 

As I'm a music lover first and foremost, what I'm "immersed in" is the music -- melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre, emotion -- rather than the sonic presentation. A more true-to-life sonic presentation certainly makes listening more enjoyable, but for me, it's the cherry on top -- not the cupcake.