The antique stereophonic recording and playback format is going to be replaced by new surround sound formats in the near future. At the moment, various surround techniques are being investigated in many artistic and technical applications. The main concern is to find an appropriate recording and playback format which supports the natural spatial hearing cues. Therefore, surround sound systems should provide a homogeneous and coherent sound field image, both for recorded and synthesized sound fields [1]. In a homogeneous sound reproduction system, no direction is treated preferentially. Coherent sound field image means that the image remains stable under changes of the listener position, though the image may change as a natural sound field does. The Holophony and Ambisonic system described by Nicol and Emerit [2] is the basic approach. This system will be extended by a new approach to compensate the interfering reflections of the reproduction room. Further possibilities to determine higher order Ambisonic signals using the beam forming approach are investigated.

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