An apparatus (100; 200; 300; 500) for generating an enhanced downmix signal (112; 212; 312) on the basis of a multi-channel microphone signal (110; 210; 310), the apparatus comprising: a spatial analyzer (120; 220; 320) configured to compute a set of spatial cue parameters (E{NN *}, E{SS *}, a, α) comprising a direction information (a, α) describing a direction-of-arrival of direct sound, a direct sound power information (E{SS *}) and a diffuse sound power information (E{NN *}), on the basis of the multi-channel microphone signal; a filter calculator (130; 230; 316) for calculating enhancement filter parameters (132; 232; 332) in dependence on the direction information (a, α) describing the direction-of-arrival of the direct sound, in dependence on the direct sound power information (E{SS *}) and in dependence on the diffuse sound power information (E{NN *}); and a filter (140; 240; 340) for filtering the microphone signal (110; 210; 310), or a signal derived therefrom, using the enhancement filter parameters (132; 232; 332), to obtain the enhanced downmix signal (112; 212; 312); wherein the filter calculator is configured to calculate the enhancement filter parameters (H 1, H 2; H 1, 1, H 1, 2, H 2, 1, H 2, 2) in dependence on direction-dependent gain factors (g 1, g 2, g 3, g 4, g 5) which describe desired contributions of a direct sound component of the multi-channel microphone signal to a plurality of loudspeaker signals (L, R, C, L s, R s; Z l) and in dependence on one or more downmix matrix values (g s; m j, l) which describe desired contributions of a plurality of audio channels (L, R, C, L s, R s; Z l) to one or more channels of the enhanced downmix signal. a spatial analyzer (120; 220; 320) configured to compute a set of spatial cue parameters (E{NN *}, E{SS *}, a, α) comprising a direction information (a, α) describing a direction-of-arrival of direct sound, a direct sound power information (E{SS *}) and a diffuse sound power information (E{NN *}), on the basis of the multi-channel microphone signal; a filter calculator (130; 230; 316) for calculating enhancement filter parameters (132; 232; 332) in dependence on the direction information (a, α) describing the direction-of-arrival of the direct sound, in dependence on the direct sound power information (E{SS *}) and in dependence on the diffuse sound power information (E{NN *}); and a filter (140; 240; 340) for filtering the microphone signal (110; 210; 310), or a signal derived therefrom, using the enhancement filter parameters (132; 232; 332), to obtain the enhanced downmix signal (112; 212; 312); wherein the filter calculator is configured to calculate the enhancement filter parameters (H 1, H 2; H 1, 1, H 1, 2, H 2, 1, H 2, 2) in dependence on direction-dependent gain factors (g 1, g 2, g 3, g 4, g 5) which describe desired contributions of a direct sound component of the multi-channel microphone signal to a plurality of loudspeaker signals (L, R, C, L s, R s; Z l) and in dependence on one or more downmix matrix values (g s; m j, l) which describe desired contributions of a plurality of audio channels (L, R, C, L s, R s; Z l) to one or more channels of the enhanced downmix signal.