A method of encoding sound objects includes receiving a set of monophonic sound inputs. Each of the set of monophonic sound inputs includes position and orientation information of a sound object relative to a source position. The set of monophonic sound inputs are encoded into a higher order ambisonic (HOA) sound field in a spherical harmonics domain based on a spherical harmonics dataset including a subset of all spherical harmonic coefficients for a given subset of azimuth and elevation angles. Some embodiments include decoding the HOA sound field to generate a set of loudspeaker signals.