I have an odd but carefully considered opposition to this: We process speech differently depending on where it comes from, and so someone could be given an “ed

I have an odd but carefully considered opposition to this: We process speech differently depending on where it comes from, and so someone could be given an “edge” by coming from a specific “spot” while others could be downplayed by being placed in a “lesser spot”. I know it sounds completely out there, but I got this awareness years ago from a scientific study (what to even look up to find it again I don’t know. Hopefully a fellow HN user knows what I’m talking about and can cite) and I have noticed the effect is actually quite drastic once you know what to look for. To a lesser extent: Clubhouse brought in spatial audio and it caused more chaos because of the way it was implemented: Some speakers were behind others which made their voices noticeably louder, and because multiple speakers could talk at once and be understood there was less respect for the person who’s turn it was. (Before that if someone talked over it just became an unintelligible clump of sound and moderators would bring things back to the single speaker)