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It’s been about 3 months since Apple released Spatial audio for Apple Music. There’s been a lot of confusion about what Spatial Audio is and how you hear it, but now that the dust has settled let’s getting into a Spatial Audio review After 3 months.
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@johnbradshaw5900 2 года назад

I think spatial audio is great if well mixed. One of the problems with Dolby Atmos is mixing to exploit Atmos as a gimmick with exaggerated effects. When done well it is excellent.

@jeffd2001 2 года назад

I have the AirPods Max and they sound amazing with movies. The spatial audio in Apple Music has been a mixed bag though.

@BaardOvergaardHansen 2 года назад

This is interesting. Then it would make sense for me to get Airpods.

@josiahsegovia9248 2 года назад

The only song I liked on Apple Music so far that I listened to was future nostalgia by dua lipa, besides that everything else in Dolby atmos has sounded quieter and muddy to me

@GameThrone20774 2 года назад

It depends if the artist is good at making Dolby atmos music Sometimes they be mucking about with atmos

@GooseCrack Год назад

@@josiahsegovia9248 future nostalgia was also mixed for 360 audio on tidal and it sounds great there, so whoever is working on that album def knows what they're doing

@womplestilskin Год назад

@@josiahsegovia9248 it is quieter for sure, but that's actually positive, it a side effect of the fact that the dynamic range is extended.

@Redman50 2 года назад

Would love to see a review of the arc

@TheNiteNinja19 2 года назад

I agree, these formats really don't work good for just audio only applications. Personally I think the best use for both would be in VR. Imagine a spatial audio atmos setup with a concert in VR, it would be like you're actually there. My home theater room is also my VR play space and I'm still trying to figure out how I can get the spatial effect to work with my surround sound setup while I'm in VR, I think probably the apple solution is the only way to get it done right now.

@shan5445 Год назад

Feel like you are there if you dont like to interact with real people

@lancelotkamaka2563 2 года назад

Coming from a blind persson who depends on audio you really nailed it. When dolby atmos is done right, it is really cool!! Thanks for this.

@SomeGadgetGuy 2 года назад

I think spatial audio gets a LOT better when we can add head tracking. Like on the Audeze Mobius, you can anchor a point in front of you, and the 3D audio tracks your head position. It helps sell the illusion of surround a LOT better, but we'll need a LOT more attention from music producers to mix specifically for spatial for it to unseat a REALLY good stereo mix.

@passionatetechnology8306 2 года назад

Love your work Juan.

@jakemixd 2 года назад

This is what I am looking for the first time it came out. BTW I’m your fan Juan 😃

@PAINFULLYHONESTTECH 2 года назад

Agreed. It works better with visuals for me, but there is potential.

@comedianjamie 2 года назад

They added it already on the betas.. 😉

@emiel333 2 года назад

Head tracking is now available within Apple Music. You need an iPhone with iOS 15 and the AirPods Pro or AirPods Max to take advantage of the head tracking feature with Dolby Atmos tracks. This is really cool if I’m honest.

@TheOneAndOnlyBruceDickinson 2 года назад

Blessed is the man who doesnt chase tech. I am satisfied.

@MM-cs2rt 2 года назад

Review that bad boy , man!

@questionmark9713 2 года назад

Dolby Atmos with speakers is amazing with my home theater, seriously it is mind blowing. I am using it with Apple TV and a 5.1.4 setup

@frankfarago2825 10 месяцев назад

Wow, they socked it to you -- hook, line, and barrel.

@orlandogarciagarcia4746 5 месяцев назад

Is This spatial audio compatible with Sony 1000XM4 360 reality audio technology?

@cosmicheretic8129 Год назад

I have the newest Apple TV 4K so will probably get some Airpod Pro 2's to try it out with movies but audio only won't happen for me likely.

@cboesel 2 года назад

Hell yeah review Sonos Arc!!!!

@rsj7458 Год назад

How videos date so quickly. I suggest you give the Sony HT-A9 music, movies and general TV is stunning when listening.

@thelivingroomstudios Год назад

Very well balanced review on Dolby Atmos and Spatial Audio. Thank you for that. For me it is all about what the format does for music creation. It is amazing to see when we play reference songs to artists at the studio that they immediately light up and start saying "oh, I can do this, and that, and bring that sound there, and . . . and . . ." and they are genuinely excited because they realize that the format transcends the inherent limitations of stereo. Being object-based and speaker agnostic the tech has nothing to do with older very limited in scope versions of multichannel audio that did not become the norm, and will only get better as the algorithms get better, and as both engineers and artists get more comfortable creating, for me--and of course I am biased--this is a new era of both creating and experiencing music in a whole different way, dare I say as or even more significant than mono to stereo.

@PAINFULLYHONESTTECH Год назад

Here’s the rub: it’s cool and fun for engineers, but if no one can hear it it won’t matter. And it’s a very few-minuscule-number of people who will ever have the means to reproduce an Atmos signal.

@womplestilskin Год назад

@@PAINFULLYHONESTTECH majority of music is heard on earphones. Atmos for earphones treats the multi channel audio elements to various transfer functions that psychoacoustic research says listeners hear as localized soundstage elements. Is it the same a full 12 channel setup, no. But it's certainly a buttload of people who are able to hear multi-channel Atmos on earphones. I agree with the decades of HRTF research, it's pretty solid. But there will be outliers that the models don't work for I imagine.

@bullisc 2 года назад

arc review please

@ItsFinigan 2 года назад

Wow, I came here after finally trying head tracked spatial audio. It is a night and day difference improvement in sound quality to me (airpod pros)

@ItsFinigan 2 года назад

There can be some artifacts when you are moving around too fast though

@NicolaDiNisio 2 месяца назад

5.1 from SACD and Blue Ray (Audio), when done well and on a good system, is phenomenal. Like in the case of Nora Johes you mentioned. I have that on multichannel SACD and it is a masterpiece 😊

@__HumanNature__ Год назад

I thought the Dolby Atmos remasters of Callas classics were absolutely breathtaking on Apple Music. Even one of her early recordings like “O mio bambino caro” which I never dreamt of hearing in such a quality has been given a new dimension and life. Would love to hear your opinion about her “Pure Maria Callas” compilation in Dolby Atmos, please!

@testerstube 11 месяцев назад

For me it has completely changed the way I listen to music. I agree with headphones statement, as its weird and isnt quite right. However through a dedicated Atmos amp with 7.1 etc plus an Apple TV 4K then its mind blowing and send shivers up your spine. I use a Denon X2800H, for dedicated music and use the Sonos Arc, sub etc for TV, and sometimes for Atmos. The difference is night and day between the Arc and the Denon, as the separation is far better on the Denon - For obvious reasons. I would check this out, then im 100% sure you will change your mind lol

@josha8715 10 месяцев назад

Dolby Atmos works great with my phone plugged into my DAC for headphone listening (with my Sony Z1R). ive had numerous songs sound improved with atmos but i get that it’s not always better, some songs have been afflicted with too much bass or too little bass or muffled detail… Also spatial audio agree with your points, it doesn’t feel necessary and it doesn’t motivate me to use my Airpods

@TheKimNeeper 2 года назад

Just a correction, a bit of wrong info about Spatial Audio - it’s not only that things stays fixed in space as you move your head around, but mostly for adding 3D stereo imaging. A very cool thing with the new iOS is that you can add Spatial Audio to all your music, say for instance Tidal HiFi, and it sounds way way better than normal stereo. If you walk around with it, the singer mostly stays fixed in front of you, if it fu*ks up a bit it will correct the imaging within 5 seconds so the singer moves in front of you. I agree some of the Dolby Atmos music is mixed weird, normal stereo tracks with the Spatial Audio filter added is often way better. Edit, just saw they added a function where you can set the “Spatialize Stereo” to either Fixed or Head Tracking. Very cool.

@cosmikrelic4815 Год назад

unless i am misunderstanding something; ordinary headphones and stereo will keep a singer in front of you.

@privacyhelp 10 месяцев назад

bruh all normal headphone will keep the singer in front of you, you dont need 'spatial' for this

@larryjones1238 2 года назад

If stereo and spacial audio are at different volumes make sure sound check is on in settings.

@313BriX 2 года назад

how to control the volumes seperately?

@LarryPutski Месяц назад

Well that was 2 years ago right now it's awesome

@davidcharles7097 3 месяца назад

100% agree.

@boomish69 2 года назад

You need to check out Dolby Atmos mixes on different streaming platforms compared to Apples Spatial Audio, something is wrong with the Apple stream, the same song is not being rendered the same as the other Dolby Atmos streams. Why?

@to_ru_kw 2 года назад

This! Some tracks are really good others are a mess. Some are even missing instruments

@danield2000 Год назад

Stereo Tracks are mastered using compression, limiting and equalisation. You can't master Dolby Atmos mixes due to it having objects (sounds) that are outside the main bed so you can't apply mastering techniques.

@rnbyido Год назад

Thanks for clarifying , I was wondering about that ..

@Rex88282 2 года назад

Too Many android phones have built in dolby atmos since years now . Dolby sound is since 10 years on xda with their sound mods. Is cool with Tidal or Deezer sometimes . Is a nice option to have . I'm glad that at least u discovered it with apple and not 20 years later.

@S.T.R.Y.K.E.R. 2 года назад

I love it. Listening to bohemian rhapsody I feel like I’m in the freakin recording studio.

@schemkesa Год назад

Spatial audio is specific for VR. You turn your head, your field of view changes BUT It would be odd if the soundstage also moves... It should stay exactly where it was in the virtual soundstage just like the VR. I think your right is has no future for music only. Dolby Atmos mixes should be mixed again up from start to get the most of it. I doubt if all producers and record companies are willing to spend the extra money

@juanalegre5551 2 года назад

I love dolby atmos

@johnanderson8749 Год назад

I love my Magnipans driven by my Vidar amp. I listen to mostly CDs in stereo. When the source is well mixed the listening pleasure, clarity, transparency and fidelity is out of this world. That is not something you will get from tiny speakers and headphones.

@techelper123 2 года назад

Dolby atmos with headphones….very lame, however if you have an apple tv hooked up to a Dolby atmos 7.2.4 home theater setup like I do, GAME CHANGER. Apple TV supports Dolby atmos through Apple Music and my receiver reads spatial audio tracks on Apple Music as Dolby atmos. The sound is INCREDIBLE. True surround sound with the setup. Center channel is only vocals with all the audio coming through surround and overhead speakers. Bohemian rhapsody gives me chills every time. Headphones not worth a switch but if you have a Dolby atmos enabled home theater set up, game changing, friends always find it mind blowing. Worth it for that reason and that reason alone

@soumyodipkanrar3032 Год назад

You are spot on about the quality of Atmos track. They lack the volume and quality the stereo tracks offer. I was disappointed to use the Atmos tracks and was wondering if I am doing something wrong. By the way Come away with me by Norah Jones is a good suggestion to experience Dolby Atmos on Apple Music. It sounds really good 👍.

@davidcottrell1308 Год назад

garbage in - garbage out. Don't blame the system...it's pretty awesome.

@draftsmanparker5065 2 года назад

I´ve never tried but sure i will tonight

@theodore9668 2 года назад

Commenting for the algorithm

@mathismorais715 2 года назад

Man, I have an apple TV and a complete 5.1 surround system and I’m listening to dolby atmos songs on Apple Music and it’s completely fire🔥🔥. Anyways I agree that on AirPods it’s not that good

@MJamesIII 2 года назад

It sounds like your system isn’t setup right. My system sounds good in stereo and in spatial.

@jaygee6447 Год назад

‘Some’ tracks sounded great, most just sounded like someone had been messing with the L/R pan.. I’d like to be able to hear instruments spaced out so they’re more tangible, hearing them simply move from left to right is not very appealing

@matiasmoulin2126 4 месяца назад

I've always been a fan of mixing music in Doubly

@RonaldDEdwards1 2 года назад

You haven’t experienced it on a proper home theater setup that’s calibrated. It can’t be beat i’m telling you! But of course the sound engineer has to do a good job of encoding it.

@noelgallard1128 Год назад

I like spatial audio because it brings back dynamics. I hate the volume boosting of stereo

@BlahBleeBlahBlah 11 месяцев назад

Yep! That’s why so many people say it’s not as “loud” as the stereo recording. It’s a good thing, thank god the loudness wars are well and truly over.

@FreakazoidDK33 Год назад

Proper Atmos does not have the upwards firing speakers they have actual speakers in or on the ceiling

@N8oRMusic Год назад

Spatial Audio/Dolby Atmos are the new "Loudness" button in order to sell more hardware.

@lebryantjordanson 6 дней назад

Been listening to Dolby Atmos and Spatial Audio in 2024 with my Beats Studio Pro. Gotta be honest, for the most part, Spatial Audio is better with Dolby Atmos off. Even about three years later, a lot of songs just sound muffled on Dolby Atmos. But on stereo, the audio is much more vibrant, immersive, and louder too. That’s just my 2 cents tho

@sinatrastyles673 2 года назад

Lol. It is executed well on some songs, others not so much.

@emjay9733 6 месяцев назад

Great explainer! Dolby is the best at hyping trademarked tech and profiting from customer ignorance.

@mattpergolski4759 2 года назад

I tried Dolby Atmos for the first week when it came out. Didn’t impress me at all. Lessened the artists’ voices and made background instruments louder. I’ve since turned it off and don’t anticipate turning it back on. I did enjoy spatial audio, though, in terms of watching podcasts or movies on my device with AirPods Max, but from a practicality sense I think stereo would be preferred most of the time. I’ll end with this: I hope that Bluetooth technology one day evolves and is able to transfer true high-resolution lossless audio.

@cosmikrelic4815 Год назад

atmos an spatial audio mixes are very variable. in movies it kind of makes sense but for audio people are still learning the ropes. the tools have only just become available for the home studio and people just don't know what to do. when you mix a band do you do it as an audience member, as the singer, the drummer? effects are a lot more involved, reverb for instance. spring type reverb on a guitar you may want to come from the position of the guitar, but a room or space reverb needs to come from everywhere. to calculate the correct reverb the reverb plug-in needs to do it from the perspective of the source. that's presuming you want your band to sound like a band in a room. you may not, this brings up all sorts of creative possibilities. basically though, the industry is new in music and people are learning. it may not last but if it does it will get better.

@PurushaDesa 2 года назад

So wait - spatial audio is kinda like ray tracing but with your own head movement?

@PAINFULLYHONESTTECH 2 года назад

Maybe?

@cosmikrelic4815 Год назад

yes. your brain locates things but perceiving the differences in arrival times, phases, and eq of the sound arriving at your ears. with a model of the head all this stuff can be calculated in real time.

@davebassP5 2 года назад

I haven’t heard any music with head tracking. I thought it was only for video.Spatial audio for music is just a version of Atmos isn’t it?

@PAINFULLYHONESTTECH 2 года назад

No, it's an add on to Atmos.

@larryjones1238 2 года назад

Try Norah Jones “Don’t Know Why” for a clear demo of head tracking.

@cosmikrelic4815 Год назад

i use logic pro which has dolby and apple render modes. they sound different.

@Justusson Год назад

Netflix has it now too and I hate it. Purist that I am, this is like going to the Louvre to see the Mona Lisa, and see a new flavour-of-the-day-instagram-filter in front of it to appease the public,.. 🤮 I’m so sick of this era’s lack of respect.

@YasinHasan Год назад

it will be perfect if Spotify does it

@danieljaver3311 Год назад

Using 5.0.4 setup of Dolby Atmos receiver and I don't want to listen to stereo music any more! Dolby Atmos made me love music again after many years NOT listening to music!

@nuggyfresh6430 Год назад

I think it's weird that you reviewed atmos music but didn't even use a speaker setup to do so... which is weird...

@levilabuda9848 Год назад

It’s horrible on my headphones for all the music I’ve tried

@TheXone7 Год назад

Try Coldplay - Clocks in Made for Spatial Audio playlist and you will hear that those song were just somehow "adapted", but specifically recorded track by track for Atmos. This track sounds so much better with Spacial Audio OFF. Even Symphony nr. 9 sounds so much better WITHOUT spacial audio. It destroys the original beauty of stereo sometimes and shifts it more to the middle. Spatial Stereo just tales regular stereo a makes it "wider" sounding. Nothing new here.

@marxman00 Год назад

You have to wear a labcoat and hold a clip board to hear it "correctly", cant wait for all the punk classics to be remastered

@newmachine00 Год назад

April, 12 of 2023 yes, i still hear Music in ATMOS like i was in a fridge of some sort. 100% no evolution in this 2 last years. Some albums like some acoustic ones sound good, but all the other stuff sound awfull (electronic, rock and metal awwfull). It doesnt matter if you listen to it using some sennheiser professional in-ears.

@travisstewart8655 2 года назад

Mix bag for music but give it five years and I bet it’ll be groundbreaking Once they figure it out.

@cosmikrelic4815 Год назад

yes, it's all new for most music creators and the tools have only recently become available to the home creator.

@timharbert7145 Год назад

Or it dies a smoldering death because hardly anyone bought the hardware.

@FleshWolf 2 года назад

I like it for what it is since it’s already improved if just a bit. The first atmos tracks were trash.

@entropy8000 Год назад

In my opinion 2/3 atmos mixes on apple music sound awful or they change the feeling of the song completely where it sounds like a completely different song. I basically turn atmos off and just listen to the High Res Lossless or Lossless and it sounds fantastic enough for me. Unfortunately I haven't been able to hear atmos in a proper environment but playing from a phone or airpods doesnt seem to sell it for me

@timharbert7145 Год назад

Thank you for putting a ratio on it. When visiting hifi shops, my brother in law and I can't find anywhere with an Apple Atmos Music setup to try.

@gameallday35 Год назад

I have the AirPod 3rd in Apple Music with Dolby atoms music and is a lied. I don’t feel nothing diferent.

@emiel333 2 года назад

The Beats Flex, priced at $50 or less, support Dolby Atmos on iPhone and iPad. It’s the cheapest way to get into Apple Music with Dolby Atmos on wireless headphones. I’m not a fan of Beats but I think I’m gonna buy the Flex to hear for myself how Dolby Atmos and spatial audio sounds without compromise. Great 👍 video.

@SpardasTechReviews 2 года назад

I think the beats flex have beats' newer sound which is not nearly as bloated and boomy as they were in the past when I did have the flex I actually liked them which is a far cry from how I felt about beats before those and the studio buds lol.

@147db Год назад

Hello! The Flex have no head tracking. So how can they play content in spatial audio, if what is said in the video is correct?

@emiel333 Год назад

@@147db You’re correct. Only the Beats Fit Pro, a couple other Beats and Apple AirPods 3, AirPods Pro and AirPods Max support head tracking.

@emiel333 Год назад

@@147db Nevertheless, if you own any Bluetooth headphone, no matter what manufacturer, set the Dolby Atmos function to Automatic and then in Bluetooth press the ‘I’ next to your headphone and selection ‘Headphone’ as audio device, you will get Dolby Atmos on your headphone. That’s what you can find on Apple Support.

@147db Год назад

@@emiel333 thank you. Just to understand: listening to Dolby atmos from Apple Music does not require specific headphones, any headphones are fine if the device that reproduces the audio support Dolby atmos. Appreciating Apple's so-called Spatial Audio instead requires not only headphones with the Apple chip but also the head tracking, right? If so, what difference can the Flex make? Thank you!

@joshuvaantonio Год назад

Came here if somebody else noticed it. Totally true ! Movies sound superb but music is stereo and it destroys “ creator’s intent “ But movie which are made for Dolby Atmos sound so best especially if you have a big sized true hd atmos movie file

@j7ndominica051 6 месяцев назад

If Dolby gave away their binaural downmixer for free on all platforms, it would have a higher chance of staying popular.

@passionatetechnology8306 2 года назад

Well, it was pretty cool watching doctor sleep directors cut in stereo spatial audio and Dolby Atmos. Many of the scenes with water or things happening in the background tricked my hearing into thinking it was in the same room as me

@PAINFULLYHONESTTECH 2 года назад

It's cool for anything visual. Audio only not so much,

@passionatetechnology8306 2 года назад

@@PAINFULLYHONESTTECH I agree with you on the video. However, I don’t think spatial audio and Dolby atmos technologies are bad technologies. I think it it is just a matter of adoption for audio and visual.

@PAINFULLYHONESTTECH 2 года назад

No, I like it a lot. Definitely an improvement over regular surround sound.

@nickmarsolek2960 2 года назад

I have normal air pods and Dolby makes every song i listen to have really low quality and i don’t like it

@macinman 2 года назад

I've been using Apple's new features primarily with my iPhone 12 Pro Max. I don't own AirPods of any kind, so can't comment on those. However, what I have noticed when listening to music now with the built in speakers is this: it sounds like the phone now has the front three speakers in a surround setup. Left, Center, and Right. When listening to music that is mixed well, I get the main vocals from what would be considered center, and other vocals / instruments from left and right. I think it has a nice affect, but of course, your mileage may vary. I'll say this though, since music, for the most part was never designed for a surround setup, the fact that Apple can add these effects and not totally ruin things is a good sign.

@SpardasTechReviews 2 года назад

I mean I don't see why apple just doesn't add spatial audio to the speakers as well. My v60 with the 3d sound engine turned on made certain sounds feel like they're moving past the phone at times. Lol

@grahamlake9728 Год назад

And can you sort out the compression on your vocal. It’s hurting my ears!

@WiscoFisherman93 2 года назад

Doesn’t this guy live in Iowa?

@PAINFULLYHONESTTECH 2 года назад

Yeah, why?

@kennykwan5103 2 года назад

Doby Atmos sucked on iOS 14 but is absolutely amazing on iOS 15. I think Apple limited the audio frequencies on iOS 14 for some reason for Doby Atmos but it’s great on iOS 15.

@asafblasbergvideographer 2 года назад

Does it sound louder?

@sirjoseph68 Год назад

Sounds like you are confusing spacial audio with head tracking. You can still experience spacial audio with head tracking turned off.

@st-christian14 2 года назад

That's painfully honest.

@lawrose4 7 месяцев назад

As you say, since stereo many formats have come and gone. There is reason for that. People have two ears. Stereo is best.

@TechieXP 2 года назад

Spatial Audio is best when you are listening to music or watching movies that support Dolby 5.1, 7.1 or Spatial Audio specifically. If you listening to music designed for surround sound, then that music won't qond as good. When Audio is specifically tailored for Dolby, specific sounds are sent to specific channels. Listening to none specific Audio for Dolby, you basically get a concert hall like effect where the chip is trying to mimic Dolby and it just doesn't sound right.

@DrForbin001 2 года назад

Jason, I have never been a fan of spatial audio (Bose uses it). Simulated sound isn't very authentic and you know as a purist you can never condone inaccurate sound, there are even movies with poor sound mixing. That is why many of us in the 90's loved THX (I have an THX Ultra set up at home in my listening room). Atmos audio is a mixed bag for me. My Meridian designed satellites have upward firing drivers and have served me well for years. Not planning to invest in an Dolby Atmos set up until it makes sense to do so. My THX 7.2 setup is pretty fantastic.

@PAINFULLYHONESTTECH 2 года назад

That sounds pretty cool.

@richv1893 2 года назад

Personally when Dolby stereo was introduced that seemed to be perfect. Everything else that has come since is a blip just as this is destined to become.

@fallenscsl 2 года назад

ya sometimes i get impressed at dolby 2.1 tricking me on my 5.1 setup, at some points i feel like 5.1 and especially spatial seems like a gimmick. I don't see myself upgrading pass 5.1 anytime soon... I plan to wait on even thinking about 7.1.2 until years ahead when more devices support dolby vision or DTS... but it seems dolby won the 7.1 codec wars since apple supports them? I just know that was a thing I had to think about when looking into surround sound... cos in the early years alot of blu ray supported DTS and my device only supported dolby

@fallenscsl 2 года назад

device support as in pc/mac not having surround sound unless you connect it to a audio receiver were as a gaming console it's just plug n play, gpu needs to start to have dolby/dts support so they and output dolby on hdmi. Until then i'm good with 5.1. Cause I do not see nvidia or amd supporting dolby or DTS cos their main focus and concern is graphical performance, I heard nvidia did support dolby once through hdmi but a patch killed it. It just sucks everytime i wanna hear dolby i need to switch over to my apple tv or gaming console.

@FreakazoidDK33 Год назад

Spatial audio for Apple AirPods Pro or Max really sucks, but for some very specific content. It does however not work well for normal scenes in a film with audio. It waters it down and makes dialog fly all over the place or sound tinny and for music it is just an abomination

@joeMW284 11 месяцев назад

When it comes to music, I've come to the conclusion that stereo still reigns supreme. More focused, more punchy. It seems like most Atmos mixes sound like you're listening to the stereo mix over PA speakers in an empty club. Not sure why you'd want that. I think Atmos for music is a thinly veiled attempt at gatekeeping by the major labels. Yeah, you can mix Atmos on headphones but you'll never truly know what you're sending out into the world. Then add the fact that Dolby and Apple use different decoders. What a mess.

@buteforce 10 месяцев назад

Reminds me of people who said that the special effects in movies in the 90's were amazing. Crap script, crap acting and crap plot were irrelevant.

@PAINFULLYHONESTTECH 10 месяцев назад

Don't understand what you mean.

@malarkey102 2 года назад

You can't fake dolby atmos that's the problem. Remember when surround sound amps had pro logic that would take stereo and try to mix it to 5.1 but it's more gimmicky. To get proper atmos it has to be recorded that way. So a lot of songs are going to sound garbage. But at the same time if you watch youtube and select pro logic some songs can sound good because of a good mix. So some songs with atmos will sound good to its a real hit and miss for a lot of songs at the moment unless they remix a lot of them.

@cosmikrelic4815 Год назад

things have moved on since pro logic. digital signal processing is much more advanced now, since things like fast fourier transforms can be done extremely fast on modern hardware. the brain is quite good at localisation at does it by a mixture of delays and eqs. having a model of the head allows you to predict the delays or phase differences of the different propagation delays through bone and air as well as the filtering effect of the different media. the brain does the rest. the big problem is that people are not the same. i don't just mean physically as in their head geometry but in their ability to localise. up further in the comments is a blind person who gets quite an experience from spatial audio, somebody who has spent a lot of time hunting or perhaps looking after infants may have different hearing skills. for some people spatial audio is great, for others not so much. the brain is the easiest thing in the world to fool. eventually you can fake anything.

@davidd4447 2 года назад

I personally thinks it's a gimmick to sucker us into buying more apple products. After the csam fiasco I'm done taking it from them, moving on myself

@SavVvageCODM 21 день назад

Untill the airpods pro 2 beat the system with spaicial audio. Turned on “stereo”

@to_ru_kw 2 года назад

For music… I’ll pass for now. Too many tracks that are plainly missing instruments, or lacking impact. Also what’s wrong with Ariana’s Be Alright?? It’s almost as if they pitched the backing vocals haha

@phillipallen5564 2 года назад

some movies sound worse in atmos with very little bass

@zaygezunt 2 года назад

"Dolby Atmos" - sounds like a greeting in Latin. Dolby atmos et benedictus apple lucrativitus

@eddyawesomes 8 месяцев назад

Literally just tuned it off because anAriana Grande Song sounded so awful. It was missing the chorus vocals at the end of the song. I guess it wasn’t missing but it sounded like Ariana was out in the distance on top of a mountain.

@thepaulbryan1000 2 года назад

Spatial Audio = 3D TV

@amdenis 2 года назад

ATMOS is great for video- especially with enough actual decent quality speakers. In contrast with music, ATMOS is vague, fatiguing, phasey, lacking in solid imaging and otherwise not at all true to any actual performance- especially with headphones or in-ears. This is not surprising, given that it was not designed for music. We have mixed in ATMOS and DTS:X for years for video, and audio for a few years. Even the best, like Nora Jones and Chris Jones are not good for the 45-55% who hear even good HTF compensated immersive as almost always behind you, instead of in-front of you. ATMOS has some serious problems to address to work well in music- especially for what over 80% of people listen to roughly 9-% of the time: headphones or in-ears. ATMOS rendered to binaural fails most people and most performances.

@jamescollins4208 Год назад

SEE…. Ever since Quadraphonic failed economically, four speakers and beyond have from the beginning, needed a rare quality of music engineering and mixing talent to really maximize the format. Likewise for 2022 even more with complicated D. Atmos and Spacial Audio. Fortunately, or not, the powers-that-be dudes keep trying to promote ways to make themselves money, moeny. The Quad Failure, though, is why I never fell for 3D HDTV either, which also ‘tanked’ (those 3D TVs were $3000 to $4000 in the beginning !!). But Quadraphonic has made a semi-quasi-comeback on DVDa and SACD (or some such) haven’t it?? (I just remember the exciting Quad mix of a Moody Blues 8-Track tape in a Pioneer player I installed under my dad’s Ford station wagon front dash, after the Ford parts guy told me it was “…impossible…”.)

@N-VAMusic 11 месяцев назад

I love dolby for movies. Music I hate it lol

@spane5mixline Год назад

It's simply a bleep that will fade away. the setup to appreciate it fully is too cumbersome

@CameronG7 2 года назад

Dolby and spatial is amazing when there’s 8 speakers in your living room and you are not wearing headphones lol

@frankgyure3154 2 года назад

Gimmick.

@comedianjamie 2 года назад

To be honest: a lot of blabla.. it is a very, very nice feature (if not amazing) and if you don’t like it, just turn it off.. 😄

@manny_f 2 года назад

It's a gimmick. Agree with all the comments saying it's good for movies and VR but not for music.

@lonelycake4114 2 года назад

Did you know lossless introduces more noise and therefore is worse quality

@PAINFULLYHONESTTECH 2 года назад

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@lonelycake4114 2 года назад

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@lonelycake4114 2 года назад

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@BwanaTube 9 месяцев назад

Quad forever. Don't want any fake software generated "spatial audio", just give me four speakers, and a good quad mix. And the only way a bedroom artist could release an Atmos/ Spatial Audio is by cutting a very large check for licensing.

@DLRudder 3 месяца назад

I hate it. i want the sounds inside my head. not “coming from my phone.”

@davidcottrell1308 Год назад

Yeah..."It would have to be mixed well"...binaural audio allows for more depth. Stereo is louder...dude...please keep up...(look up Fletcher Munson)...Atmos is at -18 LUFS...louder is not better... adjust your gain, dude. bubye.