On 13/04/2012 03:08, Stefan Schreiber wrote: ..
If you promote G format, 99% would see and listen to this as a 5.1 surround file. (An 99% would listen to an UHJ as a "stereo file", cos there are really very few decoders around. In fact, 5.1 seems to be way more mainstream than decoded UHJ.)
Part of the issue seems to be that people want it to be known that this or that soundtrack or album uses Ambisonics. Without that piece of information, all 5.1 tracks are simply understood as 5.1 tracks, and the sound may be in some unspecified way better or worse than expected. This must be something of a dilemma - B-Format (and G-format) may well be the best example of "art that conceals art". In just the same way that people geneally have no idea of the techniques used to record something - single-point, multi, or whatever. The engineer knows, and that is enough. And hope for a good review. Or...
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