1. A method comprising:', 'obtaining a first non-zero set of coefficients of a vector representative of a distinct component of a sound field, the vector having been decomposed from a plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients that describe the sound field.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first non-zero set of the coefficients includes all of the coefficients of the vector.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first non-zero set of coefficients include those of the coefficients corresponding to an order greater than an order of a basis function to which one or more of the plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients correspond.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first non-zero set of the coefficients include those of the coefficients corresponding to an order greater than an order of a basis function to which one or more of the plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients correspond and exclude at least one of the coefficients corresponding to an order greater than the order of the basis function to which the one or more of the plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients correspond,

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first non-zero set of coefficients include all of the coefficients except for at least one of the coefficients identified as not have sufficient directional information.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising extracting the first non-zero set of the coefficients as a first portion of the vector.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:', 'extracting the first non-zero set of the vector from side channel information; and obtaining a recomposed version of the plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients based on the first non-zero set of the coefficients of the vector.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the vector comprises a vector decomposed from the plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients using vector based synthesis.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the vector based synthesis comprises singular value decomposition

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:', 'obtaining one of a plurality of configuration modes by which to extract the nonzero set of coefficients of the vector in accordance with the one of the plurality of configuration modes; and', 'extracting the non-zero set of the coefficients of the vector based on the obtained one of the plurality of configuration modes

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the one of the plurality of configuration modes indicates that the non-zero set of the coefficients includes all of the coefficients

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the one of the plurality of configuration modes indicates that the non-zero set of coefficients include those of the coefficients corresponding to an order greater than an order of a basis function to which one or more of the plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients correspond

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the one of the plurality of configuration modes indicates that the non-zero set of the coefficients include those of the coefficients corresponding to an order greater than an order of a basis function to which one or more of the plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients correspond and exclude at least one of the coefficients corresponding to an order greater than the order of the basis function to which the one or more of the plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients correspond,14. The method of claim 10, wherein the one of the plurality of configuration modes indicates that the non-zero set of coefficients include all of the coefficients except for at least one of the coefficients

15. The method of claim 10, wherein obtaining the one of the plurality of configuration modes comprises obtaining the one of the plurality of configuration modes based on a value signaled in a bitstream

16. A device comprising :', 'one or more processors configured to obtain a first non-zero set of coefficients of a vector representative a distinct component of a sound field, the vector having been decomposed from a plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients that describe the sound field

17. The device of claim 16, wherein the first non-zero set of the coefficients includes all of the coefficients of the vector

18. The device of claim 16, wherein the first non-zero set of coefficients include those of the coefficients corresponding to an order greater than an order of a basis function to which one or more of the plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients correspond

19. The device of claim 16, wherein the first non-zero set of the coefficients include those of the coefficients corresponding to an order greater than an order of a basis function to which one or more of the plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients correspond and exclude at least one of the coefficients corresponding to an order greater than the order of the basis function to which the one or more of the plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients correspond,

20. The device of claim 16, wherein the first non-zero set of coefficients include all of the coefficients except for at least one of the coefficients identified as not have sufficient directional information.

21. The device of claim 16, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to extract the first non-zero set of the coefficients as a first portion of the vector.

22. The device of claim 16, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to extract the first non-zero set of the vector from side channel information, and obtain a recomposed version of the plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients based on the first non-zero set of the coefficients of the vector.

23. The device of claim 16, wherein the vector comprises a vector decomposed from the plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients using vector based synthesis.

24. The device of claim 23, wherein the vector based synthesis comprises singular value decomposition.

25. The device of claim 16, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to determine one of a plurality of configuration modes by which to extract the non-zero set of coefficients of the vector in accordance with the one of the plurality of configuration modes, and extract the non-zero set of the coefficients of the vector based on the obtained one of the plurality of configuration modes.

26. The device of claim 25, wherein the one of the plurality of configuration modes indicates that the non-zero set of the coefficients includes all of the coefficients.

27. The device of claim 25, wherein the one of the plurality of configuration modes indicates that the non-zero set of coefficients include those of the coefficients corresponding to an order greater than an order of a basis function to which one or more of the plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients correspond.

28. The device of claim 25, wherein the one of the plurality of configuration modes indicates that the non-zero set of the coefficients include those of the coefficients corresponding to an order greater than an order of a basis function to which one or more of the plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients correspond and exclude at least one of the coefficients corresponding to an order greater than the order of the basis function to which the one or more of the plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients correspond.

29. The device of claim 25, wherein the one of the plurality of configuration modes indicates that the non-zero set of coefficients include all of the coefficients except for at least one of the coefficients.

30. The device of claim 31 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to determine the one of the plurality of configuration modes based on a value signaled in a bitstream.

31. A device comprising:', 'means for obtaining a first non-zero set of coefficients of a vector representative of a distinct component of a sound field, the vector having been decomposed from a plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients that describe the sound field; and', 'means for storing the first non-zero set of coefficients.

32. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to:', 'determine a first non-zero set of coefficients of a vector that representative of a distinct component of a sound field, the vector having been decomposed from a plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients that describe the sound field.']