Yes, that’s the whole point of an object based format such as Dolby Atmos. Namely, that the objects are “placed differently” in the channels/speakers in order to more closely reproduce the intended perceived location.It seems like the objects are placed differently than in the original mix.
I think it’s incredibly unlikely there “was no attempt to move the footsteps”. Far more likely is that the attempt simply didn’t work as intended, due to poor processing, your perception, your listening position and/or your room acoustics.With the sound bar, there was no attempt to move the footsteps. Instead it placed a different sound object in the rear and didn’t move it.
No, or rather, not necessarily. The width of the two stereo speakers (the distance between them) can be adjusted either physically, obviously by simply placing them physically closer together or further apart, or adjusted psychoacoustically, for example by making the stereo signal more mono, to create the effect of the speakers being closer together than they are physically or by adjusting phase/level relationships (EG. “shuffling”) to create the effect of the speakers being further apart than they are physically. As far as I’m aware, most/all soundbars do the latter.The sound bars I know of (those bose models) aren't that large, so the sweet spot would be rather close in right?
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