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I still prefer original stereo mixes on headphones, and have turned off spatial audio on my iPhone. But I only got a 4K aTV in the movie room earlier this year. And I never just listen to music here. Today, I remembered this was on my “to do” list. I don’t know if this is better than the...

I am for the first time listening to Apple Music in Spatial Audio in my 7.2.4 Atmos theater. This is fun :) :rock::drum:

None of that sounds like an Apple Music issue. Or that Apple Music is even being used. :confused:

It’s frowned upon.

WSJ unfortunately is the worst because they have *no* free reads. Gotta be a subscriber for any link, IME.

This is easy for me to like. I really like this song, but hardly know it. Unlike Rush, I don’t have 30 years emotional experience tied to Billie Eilish. So I can take this SA production as how it’s supposed to sound and enjoy it thoroughly.

Too much reverb smeared onto the vocals. Sounds like Geddy Lee is singing in the shower. it’s not all bad. I enjoy a lot of its spatiality. But it’s gimmicky. Spatial audio giveth and spatial audio taketh away.

Sounds like it got smeared with reverb and some bass boost. Not terrible, but takes away the immediacy and cleanness of the original stereo.

I think this might be near unequivocal success. It feels like how I always felt it sounded, wide, embracing, encompassing the life of a teenager.

I’ll give Rebel Yell a pass. It gains and loses. So it’s fine. An equally listenable alt take, but not indisputably better.

I am experiencing Apple’s Dolby Atmos music for the first time tonight on my AirPods Pro. I am very ambivalent. It’s novel. It’s interesting. It’s fun. It can also fuck up good rock, robbing it of intensity and power and dynamics. I’m trying out music I know. The quiet parts are improved by the...

No, it is not.

Is Spatial Audio supported in 2017 AppleTV HD (gen 4)?

It’s just studio recording and production time and talent. High quality stereo production is basically free. Soon, high quality surround production may be basically free and normal.

Multi-channel audio doesn't require extra gear no one wants to use (contra 3D glasses and special TVs), can be heard and appreciated by normal people (contra SACD), and doesn't require sacrificing mobile listening (contra DVD-A and BD-A). It's basically free, done by the producers, and comes to...

Informed speculation is the studios are re-mixing the songs. Especially when the have the original stems of all the separate instruments from a modern studio recording, they have great ability to do significant surround productions. Studios / labels tend to own the copyrights, as noted.