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

[J. PUPSTER]

From Tidal:

John Coltrane - 1965 - A Love Supreme (Atmos)
Encoded date: 2021-11-01
Immersive Mix Engineer: Steve Genewick

OK, 1965 Jazz from Impulse! (Typically poor Quad mixes BTW) with Drums, Bass, Piano & Sax; - what does the Atmos mix sound like?

 

[humprof]

OK, 1965 Jazz from Impulse! (Typically poor Quad mixes BTW) with Drums, Bass, Piano & Sax; - what does the Atmos mix sound like?

It's Genewick, so...same model he used for Kind of Blue and other old Blue Notes: 3-channel stereo across the fronts and "live" reverbs (from carefully positioned playback speakers) in the rears and overheads, meant to recreate the sound of the original studio.

 

[AYanguas]

OK, 1965 Jazz from Impulse! (Typically poor Quad mixes BTW) with Drums, Bass, Piano & Sax; - what does the Atmos mix sound like?

This Genewick Atmos mix is a kind of extended stereo with echoes/reverbs to all 9.1.6 speakers without any discrete effects. But this is not a bad thing.

It achieves quite impressive sound clarity and presence. The sound is frontal, but it gives the impression that you are in the room with the musicians. It has a “being there” sound quality that reminds me of the “Jazz at the Pawnshop” reference.

In comparison, Tidal's stereo version seems much duller and has an isolated presence that doesn't seem as real. The stereo version with upmix (DSU or Auromatic) perhaps gets even worse.

This Atmos version, although it is not at all discrete, achieves a “reality” sound “as if you were there” that is really quite impressive when you compare it with the stereo version.