Re: [LAU] more than 4 channels for listening? Really?

To be clear--- You do mean a three channel first-order setup with eight speakers, correct? To answer questions a few others asked, It's not that a bunch of channels are needed, rather that more speakers are needed to fill gaps in the wavefront imaging. quad/5.1/7.1/etc takes an ad-hoc approach to this by adding more and more fully discrete channels to 'plug holes' while Ambisonics takes a methodical approach that simply adds more speakers to the already constructed/encoded model. ("Why didn't Ambisonics win then?" you ask... well, it requires signal processing that was hideously expensive at the time of its introduction, and the 'add another full channel for each speaker approach' was far cheaper and more practical at the time. Today, the average cereal box contains more computing power than used to land on the Moon, so I think the Ambisonics approach is suddenly the easier/cheaper way to do things. Excepting of course that the discrete channel method has a huge installed base. For that reason, Ambisonics is still 'weird' and 'fringe',) Cheers! Monty