Spatial audio reproduction splits into cue-based systems and sound-field reproduction systems
Evidence
- Systems that try to provide the necessary directional cues directly via the reproduction method. This is the approach adopted by conventional stereo, surround systems and the new 3D reproduction methods. … 2. Systems that try to reproduce the acoustic sound field that the listener would experience if they were there. This method covers ambisonics, wave-field synthesis and binaural stereo. — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 2191
Categorization
- DEFINE: Establishes the field’s two governing taxonomic categories, which organize every reproduction technology discussed afterward.
- SEED: An essay angle on why the music and film industries converged on cue-based stereo rather than the more ‘accurate’ sound-field methods could open with this dichotomy.