Originally Posted by MrMarbach
Hang on a sec. I think Michael said that you can *encode* a 360-degree planar soundfield in three channels (i.e. three channel UHJ). You still need at least four speakers to reproduce it. And then as you say you can encode a spherical soundfield in 4 channels, typically either UHJ or B-Format.
Exactly, that's why I said transmit.

For reproduction you can use as many speakers as you like with the correct matrix; the more speakers the more accurate the reproduction in theory. I'ld assume that's one of the reasons that Meridian kit has tended to have more outputs than the competition.

G68, DSP5000, M2500