@millercarbon I agree, but I want to see if others feel the same way. I have recordings that were very well recorded with very wide and deep sound stages that don’t use this technology. There was a very good engineer at the board. I personally liked it on Amused to Death, but on the others it sounded over used. Do you think this technology could be used as a crutch in place of a good engineer and we will see more recordings in the future using it?
I don’t see it so much as a crutch for engineers as a marketing gimmick.
There’s definitely a subset of audiophools who question the need or even the reality of imaging. Which is dumbfounding because everyone who ever heard my system, imaging was always the part that thrilled them the most. That’s not now either, but over like 30 years.
Any audiophile worth his salt knows and has mastered the simple techniques needed to get good imaging. So, "worth his salt", basically just eliminated half the audiophiles. Which even knowing the word "audiophile" had already narrowed it down to some small percent of people. Long story short everyone likes it but hardly anyone knows how to get it.
Enter the gimmick. Which would be everywhere now, like the equally gimmicky 5.1 HT gimmick, except bad luck, nobody standing in line to see music like they are movies, and no trademark anywhere near as good as THX to suck in the masses, so you can forget about this one ever getting any traction.
The one tiny little bit of traction it will get is from the tiny sliver of guys who hear the one or two good ones and buy another hoping to catch lightening in a bottle twice. Good luck with that.
Reality is when good recordings are made they are gonna sound good whether or not there is some clever trademark involved. You want to be amazed get a copy of Jennifer Warnes The Well or Janis Ian Breaking Silence or any of a zillion other brilliant recordings. Heck you should hear my run of the mill copy of The Wall on my system!
If you follow my story it started with HT and processors and led to this https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8367 because for me sound quality uber alles. So what are the odds I would ever go back to processor based sound? Slim to none. Nobody would. Really wish more could hear my system. Oh well. Soon, with any luck, the story can be told.
All beside the point, at least as far as the original question goes: Will we be seeing more? Been a while since I even heard the word Qsound so did a search and first thing I see it goes back to at least 1990. Not trying to start an argument with the usual nit pickers, just making the point its been around long enough to no longer be a question of "will we" see more. We haven’t. We won’t.