Not at all skeptical about the enhancement wrought by more channels, or even just by upmixing (I am a devotee of Dolby upmixers). Though I'm not sure that music needs 'height' as much as, say, movie soundtracks do. I'm open to being convinced.
but all true "concerts" would be performed in a concert hall. I remember in the old days my receiver had a "concert hall" setting to emulate this. Now Atmos can do it with much, much more computer precision.
In a concert hall there is definitely a 2D x,y axis prominence of sound (left and right) but BIG concert halls have almost as much space (z axis) above the performers as they do to the left and right so atmos is able to capture that space.
Outdoor concerts are a terrible way to "hear" the performers because the z axis (height) sound just evaporates into the air.
Studio recordings definately have a lot of "reverb" from the ceiling so being able to computer equalize that into a 3D atmos sound definately gives a truer representation of what the engineer and performer hears in studio and concert hall.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, music, as well as everyday sound is truly 3D spatial, just go outside and listen to the birds in the trees (my favorite surround when I'm high
), so why not have a technology that can reproduce that, isn't that the whole point of technology in the fist place?
Don't hate the technology, hate the corporation.
Many a good technology has been killed by greedy corporations but don't blame the tech, boycott the corps, c'mon you hippies, why die inside,
teach your children, well.
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