Treat each ambisonic order separately in development
An ambisonic field is not one signal, and treating it as one is how spatial detail gets flattened. Prism works per order — compression, balance and spaced-array depth applied where they belong.
The orders mixer makes audible what is usually only theoretical: what each order is contributing, and what happens when you change it.
Control dynamics without collapsing the field.
Hear what each order is carrying, one at a time.
Virtual array spacing for depth that a coincident encode cannot give.