Mea culpa. The combination of getting older, two double martini’s, and haste last evening, was clearly not good.
I think what she actually said was “spatial features”, which I took to mean Spatial Sound and Spatial Balancer. She was speaking quickly. Your hypothesis that the Spatial Balancer correlates to number of channels is reasonable. I wondered about Spatial Sound and the additional Estimator. Your explanations make sense and explains why I didn’t see anything specifically about this in Genie.
My second error re disabling the DNN was, again, the result of semi-soused haste. I think she simply indicated that it would provide full forward directionality; my translation of that was front beam-forming. As far as the DNN being disabled, I meant that the Virtual Outer Ear is disabled, as you point out. Checking my notes though, there is this interesting wording in the Genie Help re Neural Automatic: “We recommend this setting to achieve the full effect of MoreSound Intelligence”. I may be parsing this too finely, but that wording seems to imply that the other settings Full Directional and Fixed Omni do not achieve “the full effect”, whatever that may mean specifically.
Thanks for keeping me honest. I won’t make this mistake again (at least, not on this site with guys like you over my shoulder ).