Is that what "3D" is on some of the Amazon titles I am looking at?
No idea.. Amazon does not offer HD in my country. Meanwhile, Apple just offers the service (probably mostly) unrestricted worldwide. The others must be doing something really wrong.
Is that what "3D" is on some of the Amazon titles I am looking at?
Amazon seems to be using the terms “Dolby Atmos” and “3D” interchangeably:Is that what "3D" is on some of the Amazon titles I am looking at?
Nope, as far as I know, it's Tidal, Amazon and Apple offering Atmos.
On the Dolby site on Amazon HD I already see various album titles that are not in Atmos in Apple Music.
Per Dolby it appears they’re using “Atmos” to describe effects processing on an Echo product.
https://www.dolby.com/experience/amazon-music-hd/amazon-music-hd-how-to/
Now what I don't know if Amazon HD can actually play the files on something other than the Echo.
But that is the only thing that actually matters. If an “Atmos” track cannot be played back on an immersive home audio system as an immersive track, then it is something materially different and grossly inferior.
Please, don't.It would be ironic if the anti-MQA "lossless LPCM forever" crowd that has for five years fear-mongered against eminent MQA takeover, completely missed the actual takeover by a lossy and bad sounding (at least on stereo) multi-channel closed and proprietary Dolby format.
It's realI did not know that.
Can you confirm Amazon’s Atmos-encoded music is a real offering and not just some boom-box thing? Per Dolby it appears they’re using “Atmos” to describe effects processing on an Echo product.
https://www.dolby.com/experience/amazon-music-hd/amazon-music-hd-how-to/
I won't - will stick to Apple.Please, don't.
Sure.. But I can't give you that information From what is online available it [Amazon Music “Atmos”] indeed seems to only work on Echo Studio.
Sitting inside the orchestra would be very cool. Of course, with a lot of modern music, there was no orchestra. When it comes to electronic music, I’m all in for whatever effect makes the music sound more interesting and engaging (others will differ, of course). I was just listening to an old track by Boards of Canada on my 2-way desktop system, and somehow they mixed some of the voices in a way that made them sound like they were coming from far outside the stereo field. Very cool and not sure what they did.
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Now that Apple adopted Dolby Atmos (when was the last time Apple adopted anything?) it will spread like wild fire.
I can't even count the number of people I know with surround systems on one finger. It's simply not a thing.I can count on one hand the number of people I know who have surround systems in their homes.
I think it's pretty common to have separate systems for music and film.I can't even count the number of people I know with surround systems on one finger. It's simply not a thing.
I have come across a couple of people who have implemented 'multiroom' sytems with a single (!) wall or ceiling mounted speaker in each room, but I have otherwise never met or even heard of anyone in my circle who has anything more advanced than a pair of small bookshelves and/or a soundbar for music/movie listening.
No doubt Atmos/3D/Spatial audio will gain a few devotees in the next couple of years and maybe sell some gear to the gullible, but once the novelty has worn off it will undoubtedly go the way of the dodo like all the other toytown 3D formats. Try buying a '3D' tv now. Three or four years ago there was nothing else.
I can't even count the number of people I know with surround systems on one finger. It's simply not a thing.
I have come across a couple of people who have implemented 'multiroom' sytems with a single (!) wall or ceiling mounted speaker in each room, but I have otherwise never met or even heard of anyone in my circle who has anything more advanced than a pair of small bookshelves and/or a soundbar for music/movie listening.
No doubt Atmos/3D/Spatial audio will gain a few devotees in the next couple of years and maybe sell some gear to the gullible, but once the novelty has worn off it will undoubtedly go the way of the dodo like all the other toytown 3D formats. Try buying a '3D' tv now. Three or four years ago there was nothing else.
Adam, can you describe your setup? What does it take to have an Atmos compliant system?You can now count One “Gullible Devotee” you have heard of, that has a full Dolby ATMOS/3D/AURO Sound system. With 15 separate speakers and 2 Subs in a 9.2.6 arrangement. All the base layers are full towers. While I love just 2ch or 2.2 ch music. I also have about 2 dozen Atmos music discs and stream ATMOS music. IMHO multichannel music is incredible and far more engaging and enveloping than 2 channel music. Does that mean I don’t like 2 channel music anymore? Not one bit. I listen to whatever format suits my mood. I only wonder why all the hostility to new formats and methods of music delivery? I think it’s a wonderful thing and represents the expansion of appreciation of music consumption.
If some have never experienced a full Dolby ATMOS music audition, I highly recommend the experience. Seems pretty difficult to me to be able to make judgements about something that a person has never heard or experienced.
So not to pollute this thread I will send you a pm.Adam, can you describe your setup? What does it take to have an Atmos compliant system?
Maybe I can start converting my home theater to Atmos after all...
You can now count One “Gullible Devotee” you have heard of, that has a full Dolby ATMOS/3D/AURO Sound system.
All the base layers are full towers.
If some have never experienced a full Dolby ATMOS music audition, I highly recommend the experience. Seems pretty difficult to me to be able to make judgements about something that a person has never heard or experienced.
That’s exactly what I’m hoping for as well: that they will also start streaming all those SACD recordings.Indeed, one gap in all the streaming services, Apple and Tidal included, is they’re missing pre-Atmos multichannel content. So no DSOTM in quad, no Wish You Were Here or White Album or Brothers in Arms or Sea Change in 5.1, and so on.