A content consumer device (14A, 14B, 14C, 14D) configured to play one or more of a plurality of audio streams, the content consumer device comprising: a memory configured to store the plurality of audio streams and audio location information associated with the plurality of audio streams and representative of audio stream coordinates in an acoustical space where an audio stream was captured or audio stream coordinates in a virtual acoustical space where an audio stream was synthesized or both, each of the audio streams representative of a soundfield; and one or more processors coupled to the memory, and configured to: determine device location information representative of device coordinates of the content consumer device in the acoustical space; determine, based on the plurality of audio streams, an energy map representative of an energy of a common soundfield represented by the plurality of audio streams by performing energy analysis with respect to each of the audio streams and wherein the one or more processors are further configured to analyze the energy map to determine an audio source location; determine an audio source distance based on the audio location information as a distance between the audio source location in the acoustical space and the device coordinates; compare the audio source distance to an audio source distance threshold, the audio source distance threshold being definable by a user of the content consumer device via a user interface; select, when the audio source distance is greater than the audio source distance threshold, a single audio stream of the plurality of audio streams as a subset of the plurality of audio streams, the single audio stream associated with the audio stream coordinates having a shortest distance to the device coordinates; and output, based on the subset of the plurality of audio streams, one or more speaker feeds. a memory configured to store the plurality of audio streams and audio location information associated with the plurality of audio streams and representative of audio stream coordinates in an acoustical space where an audio stream was captured or audio stream coordinates in a virtual acoustical space where an audio stream was synthesized or both, each of the audio streams representative of a soundfield; and one or more processors coupled to the memory, and configured to: determine device location information representative of device coordinates of the content consumer device in the acoustical space; determine, based on the plurality of audio streams, an energy map representative of an energy of a common soundfield represented by the plurality of audio streams by performing energy analysis with respect to each of the audio streams and wherein the one or more processors are further configured to analyze the energy map to determine an audio source location; determine an audio source distance based on the audio location information as a distance between the audio source location in the acoustical space and the device coordinates; compare the audio source distance to an audio source distance threshold, the audio source distance threshold being definable by a user of the content consumer device via a user interface; select, when the audio source distance is greater than the audio source distance threshold, a single audio stream of the plurality of audio streams as a subset of the plurality of audio streams, the single audio stream associated with the audio stream coordinates having a shortest distance to the device coordinates; and output, based on the subset of the plurality of audio streams, one or more speaker feeds. determine device location information representative of device coordinates of the content consumer device in the acoustical space; determine, based on the plurality of audio streams, an energy map representative of an energy of a common soundfield represented by the plurality of audio streams by performing energy analysis with respect to each of the audio streams and wherein the one or more processors are further configured to analyze the energy map to determine an audio source location; determine an audio source distance based on the audio location information as a distance between the audio source location in the acoustical space and the device coordinates; compare the audio source distance to an audio source distance threshold, the audio source distance threshold being definable by a user of the content consumer device via a user interface; select, when the audio source distance is greater than the audio source distance threshold, a single audio stream of the plurality of audio streams as a subset of the plurality of audio streams, the single audio stream associated with the audio stream coordinates having a shortest distance to the device coordinates; and output, based on the subset of the plurality of audio streams, one or more speaker feeds.