Listening to in Dolby Atmos Streaming, via Tidal/Apple/Amazon

[Cheezmo]

nope, guess we'll wait a while for it over here

This is what you are looking for, been out for a year...

Standard version too...

 

[beerking]

I'm finding some really good Atmos releases, this evening...imo

 

[sjcorne]

A big thank you to @MrSmithers for recommending this one! It’s really more of a well-balanced quad than Atmos (my rear surrounds are firing while the sides are basically empty), but it sounds great.

 

[perzon57]

I'm finding some really good Atmos releases, this evening...imo

I agree with you on this one, good Atmos mix, but some of your earlier recommendations I do no agree fully on.

 

[perzon57]

Apple could sure use some work between Atmos and Stereo songs in regards to volume levels; I get woke up too many times listening to some of this stuff!
My beauty sleep is paramount gosh dang it.

That's easy to avoid, I don't listen to stereo.

 

[beerking]

I agree with you on this one, good Atmos mix, but some of your earlier recommendations I do no agree fully on.

Ah, each to their own It's all cool

 

[beerking]

I agree with you on this one, good Atmos mix, but some of your earlier recommendations I do no agree fully on.

Maybe this one will tickle your fancy

 

[haikubass]

New album by Dave Matthews Band arrives in two weeks and you can sign up for an Atmos party:
https://davematthewsband.com/dave-matthews-band-dolby-listening-parties

 

[J. PUPSTER]

That's easy to avoid, I don't listen to stereo.

I know, seems easy enough, but sometimes they're mixed within the same album aren't they, and then BAM!, blasted out of a great dream?

 

[perzon57]

Maybe this one will tickle your fancy

I'll report back tomorrow afternoon.

 

[Blackwood]

Finishing a musical trip through all the Harrison Atmos albums with Cloud 9 which, along with ATMP, is at the top of my list of favorite Harrison albums.

The only one I listened to with my wife in the house was Wonderwall Music. We’ll put her down as “not a fan.” Can’t say I’m a big fan either, but I did play Drilling a Home over and over again. Glad I didn’t subject her to Electronic Sound.

 

[Bretho72]

Makes perfect sense as I was looking forward to Like a Prayer, it should’ve popped big time but didn’t but I’m glad that the tracks from then True Blue album are good so hopefully we’ll see a Atmos mix of the whole album.

 

[EricKalet]

My observations of Madonna - The Immaculate Collection:

• The following tracks are upmixes/double stereo/all channel stereo (whatever term you prefer):
  • Lucky Star
  • Borderline
  • Into The Groove
  • Like A Prayer
  • Vogue
• If you listen to the album on a 5.1 setup vs. Atmos, you will be essentially listening to a 4.0 mix
  • No tracks utilize the center channel
  • I only notice very slight use of the LFE channel on the following tracks:
    • Like A Virgin
    • Open Your Heart
    • Justify My Love

Other than the 5 tracks that are not discrete mixes, I am generally pleased. I wonder if there is an issue with the availability of the multitracks for these 5 songs. Or perhaps a different immersive mix engineer is responsible for the Atmos mix (there are no immersive mix engineer credits on Tidal).

I think Lucky Star is fantastic. Express Yourself also very good. Disappointed with Like A Prayer. Could have done so much more. Bass on all of these is anemic. Overall happy to have some Madonna in Atmos...hopefully a next round of her music is more on the Steven Wilson level of mixing.

 

[pat bateman]

Apple could sure use some work between Atmos and Stereo songs in regards to volume levels; I get woke up too many times listening to some of this stuff!
My beauty sleep is paramount gosh dang it.

Enabling "Sound Check" in your Apple Music settings really helps this.

 

[Cheezmo]

In case the Star Wars soundtracks weren't enough...

 

[Monkish]

My observations of Madonna - The Immaculate Collection:

• The following tracks are upmixes/double stereo/all channel stereo (whatever term you prefer):
  • Lucky Star
  • Borderline
  • Into The Groove
  • Like A Prayer
  • Vogue
• If you listen to the album on a 5.1 setup vs. Atmos, you will be essentially listening to a 4.0 mix
  • No tracks utilize the center channel
  • I only notice very slight use of the LFE channel on the following tracks:
    • Like A Virgin
    • Open Your Heart
    • Justify My Love

Other than the 5 tracks that are not discrete mixes, I am generally pleased. I wonder if there is an issue with the availability of the multitracks for these 5 songs. Or perhaps a different immersive mix engineer is responsible for the Atmos mix (there are no immersive mix engineer credits on Tidal).

Thanks so much for this info, LC -- I only have a 5.1 setup, but to my ears, the sweet spot of song and mix quality comes right in the middle of the album, with the back-to-back of Live To Tell and Papa Don't Preach.

 

[Franck]

My understanding is that Dolby does not offer head tracking, therefore Apple had to do it using their own renderer to work with Apple Airpods.

Additionally, Apple render Atmos on a variety of devices (Mac Laptops for one) where speakers are not in the standard Dolby locations... etc..

In Logic you can choose the Dolby Renderer of the Spatial Audio Renderer (with or without head tracking and using the AirPod HRTF improvement).

I wanted to add, AC4-IMS is not the right codec. This is a codec to encode binaural with Stereo. IMS standing for IMersive Stereo. It is a 2 channel format.

What you need is AC4-A-JOC (Advanced Joint Object Coding).

 

[humprof]

Artemis, In Real Time. Jazz supergroup featuring two of my favorite contemporary players, drummer Allison Miller and trumpeter Ingrid Jensen. Blue Note, so...fronts-forward/big-ambience. But crackin' music.

https://artemisband.com/home

 

[user 20039]

Nice!

 

[himey]

Anyone else think the Hellbilly Deluxe is a bit bass shy/thin sounding? Other than that, I like the mix.