Listening to Now (In Dolby Atmos)

[humprof]

Here's the Weather Report: Mysterious Traveller by Weather Report

Seems to be the 2002 5.1 mix. (Derived from the 1974 quad, as I understand it--and unlike some of the other 5.1 remixes from that period, Columbia actually didn't screw this one up too badly? Not much coming out of the C and LFE channels, at any rate.)

 

[beerking]

not here sadly.. maybe a geographical restriction

It is there Adam...sorry can't provide a link as at my brothers until Tuesday ....on the good old Isle of Wight.

 

[César]

Adam, this is the link to Weather Report, hope it works
https://music.apple.com/es/album/mysterious-traveller/188263606?ls

 

[perzon57]

Argent, In Deep quad from Apple Music.As I never bought this,it was a nice surprice.

 

[harync]

Maybe Apple needs to be advised that many modern AVR gear doesn't play nice with 4.0 streams. They need to process them in MMH to add silent tracks and turn them into 5.1.

My AVR (Pioneer VSX-LX503) does not play Quad properly from BD-Audio via Sony X800m2 (Pink Floyd, Doobie Brothers, etc). If I just add a silent center channel to a FLAC it works fine, but always add both center and sub just to be safe.

I tried a bunch of the Apple Music purported Quad albums and they all showed up as 5.1 MCH. Are there any particularly problematic titles with Apple Music I should check? I don't think they are sending 4.0 streams.

 

[humprof]

My AVR (Pioneer VSX-LX503) does not play Quad properly from BD-Audio via Sony X800m2 (Pink Floyd, Doobie Brothers, etc). If I just add a silent center channel to a FLAC it works fine, but always add both center and sub just to be safe.

I tried a bunch of the Apple Music purported Quad albums and they all showed up as 5.1 MCH. Are there any particularly problematic titles with Apple Music I should check? I don't think they are sending 4.0 streams.

For the quad titles, I think they're sending 6-channel streams with silent C & LFE.

 

[fredblue]

Argent, In Deep quad from Apple Music.As I never bought this,it was a nice surprice.

its an interesting mix, active Surround for sure but not like the usual CBS style Quad of the time.. i only listened through the Apple offering once but it sounded pretty good

 

[fredblue]

For the quad titles, I think they're sending 6-channel streams with silent C & LFE.

Apple have been getting quite a lot of things right with this Spatial Audio rollout so far.. if they made more of a song and dance about it and better search etc., it'd be even better

 

[fredblue]

Adam, this is the link to Weather Report, hope it works
https://music.apple.com/es/album/mysterious-traveller/188263606?ls

its great, thank you!
do you have a link for the Isley Brothers' "3+3"?

 

[fredblue]

It is there Adam...sorry can't provide a link as at my brothers until Tuesday ....on the good old Isle of Wight.

thank you!! (see what i mean about the shitty search function! ) hope you're having a fabbo time on the IOW BTW!! TTFN!

 

[sjcorne]

its great, thank you!

I wonder if they used the old Sony SACD mastering (including fake center/sub channels) or a fresh transfer from the quad master?

 

[fredblue]

I wonder if they used the old Sony SACD mastering (including fake center/sub channels) or a fresh transfer from the quad master?

good question! i don't know what they used but it sounded good

 

[humprof]

https://music.apple.com/us/album/how-long-do-you-think-its-gonna-last/1571575880
Aaron & Bryce Dessner/Justin Vernon side project, with Taylor Swift vocals on a couple of tracks. Nice enough album, but I probably won't give it more than one listen. Relatively spare (but effective) use of overheads. I'd like to hear The National or--better yet--Bon Iver in Atmos.

 

[CINERAMAX]

BOC, Tyranny and Mutation Quad on Apple Music.Nice surprice.

Links please, keep em coming!

 

[perzon57]

Links please, keep em coming!

It's under spatial music in Apple Music.I'm not able to share links,but there are several links in the thread Apple joining the Atmos game.

 

[IMachine]

https://music.apple.com/de/album/tyranny-and-mutation/185664277

 

[popshop]

https://tidal.com/track/197210307Beatles - Across the Universe

 

[IMachine]

https://tidal.com/track/197210307Beatles - Across the Universe

Jep. But nothing special.

 

[popshop]

Agreed, I was hoping for a bit more. The album doesn't call for aggressive mixes, but this song could've...

 

[sbrom]

Switchfoot. Decent mix, sounds good in 5.1 on Apple Music