Phantom imaging lets object-based audio create many locations from few loudspeakers

Evidence

Dolby was close to the movie industry and delivered Atmos with great fanfare, debuting a 64-channel cinema system. This obviously offered film sound mixers exceptional flexibility in panning sounds to different loudspeakers in different locations, which was persuasive to most of the large audience. However, few cinemas can afford such an elaborate array of loudspeakers, and certainly homes cannot accommodate it. However, by using phantom images between and among pairs or groups of loudspeakers many more locations are possible with fewer loudspeakers. — Toole, Floyd E, Sound reproduction- the acoustics and…, 780

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains how phantom images between loudspeaker pairs multiply effective localization positions in object-based audio.