Multichannel audio delivers directional reflections and long delays matching large venues

Evidence

Multichannel audio is a major advance, because it can deliver direct sounds and recorded reflections from different directions and at the long delays consistent with large venues. It moves the listener closer to what it might have been like at a live performance in a concert hall, and other performing spaces appropriate to the musical genre, like jazz or folk music. — Toole, Floyd E, Sound reproduction- the acoustics and…, 681