Audio decoder for decoding an encoded audio signal, the audio decoder being a switched audio decoder, the audio decoder comprising: a linear prediction domain decoder; a frequency domain decoder; a first joint multichannel decoder for generating a first multichannel representation using an output of the linear prediction domain decoder and using a first multichannel information; a second joint multichannel decoder for generating a second multichannel representation using an output of the frequency domain decoder and a second multichannel information (22, 24); and a first combiner for combining the first multichannel representation and the second multichannel representation to perform a switching between the first multichannel representation and the second multichannel representation to obtain a decoded audio signal, wherein the second joint multichannel decoder is different from the first joint multichannel decoder, wherein the audio decoder is configured to switch within a current frame of a multichannel audio signal from using the linear prediction domain decoder for decoding a previous frame to the frequency domain decoder for decoding an upcoming frame, wherein the first joint multichannel decoder comprises a stereo decoder, the stereo decoder being configured to calculate a synthetic multichannel audio signal (250a, 250b) from a decoded mono signal generated by the linear prediction domain decoder for a current frame using the first multichannel information of a previous frame, wherein the second joint multichannel decoder is configured to calculate the second multichannel representation for the current frame and to weight the second multichannel representation using a start window to obtain a weighted second multichannel representation, and wherein the combiner is configured to combine the synthetic multichannel audio signal (250a, 250b) and the weighted second multichannel representation to obtain a current frame of the decoded audio signal. a linear prediction domain decoder; a frequency domain decoder; a first joint multichannel decoder for generating a first multichannel representation using an output of the linear prediction domain decoder and using a first multichannel information; a second joint multichannel decoder for generating a second multichannel representation using an output of the frequency domain decoder and a second multichannel information (22, 24); and a first combiner for combining the first multichannel representation and the second multichannel representation to perform a switching between the first multichannel representation and the second multichannel representation to obtain a decoded audio signal, wherein the second joint multichannel decoder is different from the first joint multichannel decoder, wherein the audio decoder is configured to switch within a current frame of a multichannel audio signal from using the linear prediction domain decoder for decoding a previous frame to the frequency domain decoder for decoding an upcoming frame, wherein the first joint multichannel decoder comprises a stereo decoder, the stereo decoder being configured to calculate a synthetic multichannel audio signal (250a, 250b) from a decoded mono signal generated by the linear prediction domain decoder for a current frame using the first multichannel information of a previous frame, wherein the second joint multichannel decoder is configured to calculate the second multichannel representation for the current frame and to weight the second multichannel representation using a start window to obtain a weighted second multichannel representation, and wherein the combiner is configured to combine the synthetic multichannel audio signal (250a, 250b) and the weighted second multichannel representation to obtain a current frame of the decoded audio signal.