For most of our lives, stereo has been the primary way of rendering the music we consume.
But perhaps that shouldnt be surprising: reproducing and, especially,creatingimmersive audio content is awfully inconvenient.
Luckily, things are starting to change.
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L-Acoustics wasnt always focused on everyday creators, after all.
Its not about the quality of the speakers anymore, its more about the system approach.
Simple two-channel systems have held up in home listening spaces and small venues because the distances involved arent huge.
Soon it would begin to add surround speakers and speakers in the seats.
But the company wanted these experiences to extend beyond live venues and mixing engineers.
The mixing engineers only do what the artists ask them to do, says Le Nost.
We wanted to also reach the creative minds like music producers and composers.
Traditionalists might scoff at this new direction given simple 2.0 stereo has thrived for so long.
Immersion is that overall feeling of being in the sound scene and not just in front of it.
In the case of traditional headphones, its like youre stuffing an orchestra between your ears.
Granted, theres nothing quite like live music, but spatial audio can get you awfully close.
In some cases, it can create a spatial presentation that is not physically possible.
