An audio receiver, the audio receiver comprising: a memory configured to store an audio signal; and processing circuitry (315, 325, 340)coupled to the memory, the processing circuitry (315, 325, 340) configured to: receive the audio signal, the audio signal comprising a plurality of ambisonic components; separate the audio signal into a plurality of independent subcomponents, each of the independent subcomponents corresponds to a different physical sound source, wherein each of the plurality of ambisonic components is split into the independent subcomponents; ambisonic decode each of the independent subcomponents; and combine each of the ambisonic decoded independent subcomponents into a speaker signal, wherein ambisonic decoding each of the independent subcomponents comprises the processing circuitry configured to: separate each of the plurality of ambisonic components for each of the independent subcomponents into a plurality of frames; overlap each frame with at least one adjacent frame; and characterized by ambisonic decoding each of the independent subcomponents further comprises the processing circuitry configured to: perform smoothing on the plurality of frames according to a smoothing factor based on a correlation between overlapping parts of the plurality of frames of the plurality of decoded ambisonic components. a memory configured to store an audio signal; and processing circuitry (315, 325, 340)coupled to the memory, the processing circuitry (315, 325, 340) configured to: receive the audio signal, the audio signal comprising a plurality of ambisonic components; separate the audio signal into a plurality of independent subcomponents, each of the independent subcomponents corresponds to a different physical sound source, wherein each of the plurality of ambisonic components is split into the independent subcomponents; ambisonic decode each of the independent subcomponents; and combine each of the ambisonic decoded independent subcomponents into a speaker signal, receive the audio signal, the audio signal comprising a plurality of ambisonic components; separate the audio signal into a plurality of independent subcomponents, each of the independent subcomponents corresponds to a different physical sound source, wherein each of the plurality of ambisonic components is split into the independent subcomponents; ambisonic decode each of the independent subcomponents; and combine each of the ambisonic decoded independent subcomponents into a speaker signal, wherein ambisonic decoding each of the independent subcomponents comprises the processing circuitry configured to: separate each of the plurality of ambisonic components for each of the independent subcomponents into a plurality of frames; overlap each frame with at least one adjacent frame; and characterized by ambisonic decoding each of the independent subcomponents further comprises the processing circuitry configured to: perform smoothing on the plurality of frames according to a smoothing factor based on a correlation between overlapping parts of the plurality of frames of the plurality of decoded ambisonic components. separate each of the plurality of ambisonic components for each of the independent subcomponents into a plurality of frames; overlap each frame with at least one adjacent frame; and characterized by ambisonic decoding each of the independent subcomponents further comprises the processing circuitry configured to: perform smoothing on the plurality of frames according to a smoothing factor based on a correlation between overlapping parts of the plurality of frames of the plurality of decoded ambisonic components.