On 2011-07-27, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
This is very subjective, but yes, I have the impression it is better. Also the speakers tend to disappear as being the sources of the sound and there is less interaction from the room - the sensation that the sound is 'just there' is stronger than for straight stereo.
I wonder... Has anybody tried calculating the traditional ambisonic localisation measurables for this sort of playback? For UHJ super stereo we already know what they are. But for ambisonically panned stereo?
At least for Blumlein stereo it would stand to reason that we'd be getting many of the same benefits we get when going with TriField, or any of the multichannel frontal stereo setups Gerzon at al's work for HDTV compatibility stereo hinted at. Then, some of that benefit would leach onto pairwise panned, staged material as well -- it does retain phase just as coincident Blumlein does, and the main psychoacoustics happen on the decoder side, so that the only thing which really is mismatched is the encoding locus over the Scheiber sphere.
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