[LAU] 5.1 to ambisonices (was: more than 4 channels for listening? Really?)

[Martin Leese]

Arnold Krille <arnold at arnoldarts.de> wrote:
...
> My rational is that most (all?) 5.1 mixes are: music and action stuff on L+R
> (front), dialogues on C, ambient and action effects on L+R(rear).
> So my idea is to split the rear channels into six or more channels distributed
> around the rear side of the circle (or even sphere) to have a more surrounding
> feeling and overcome the hole in the panning.

Multiple surround speakers fed with the same
signal is what you hear in a cinema.
Recreating that would therefore seem to be a
useful path to go down.

Regards,
Martin
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