Are you(or have you done) a youtube review on this?
i see ATMP is on Apple, but I am almost afraid to listen to my beloved George, due to the mess they made of IE Bohemian Rhapsody and Tiny Music etc
Can I assume the messes i mention are not straight from the artist/studio in ATMOS, but tinkered with by Apple?
I know Tiny music is great for you, and I trust your ears and have based all my purchases on your reviews, so I thought maybe Canada(like on Netflix) gets different mixes, etc, but I have a friend in New York who also said Tiny music is a muted mess(We are both on 4k box) as is Bohemian rhapsody.
You, being the man of all things surround,is there any digging into this you can do? Apple assures me they do not tinker with or make these ATMOS mixes.i am doubting that btw.
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I would assume you're not getting a different mix or master. I also don't think you'd be one to exaggerate, so if you're really hearing a "muted mess" I think something must be going wrong, somewhere in the signal chain from server to your ears.
I can tell you that Tidal made a mess of Tiny Music, for me. 2 muffled tracks, then a clear, loud one, a few muffled tracks, a loud one, and so forth.
Switching over to Apple it just sounds awesome, on my system. Better than I've ever heard on CD or the radio and nice and surroundy.
Btw, two other people in and passing through my household both gave similar feedback. Tidal sounds muffled and Apple sounds fine. That's still anecdotal, but it ain't just me!
Why you're hearing the album muffled, even on Apple, I just don't know. First guess is bandwidth? Maybe the various services have a way of throttling, lowering quality, if a certain bandwidth isn't detected?
We've learned from immersiveaudioalbum.com (IAA) downloads that there are umpteen ways to package Atmos, with varying degrees of compression.
I will be comparing ATMP from my BD to the version on Apple. I can tell you there, that I hear no substantial difference between, say, AFtP on BD and (at the time) on Tidal. Minor differences in definition, but the streaming Atmos was honestly enjoyable for me. Not a muffled mess.
Are there Atmos tracks on Apple that sound fine to you?