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I got my Christmas gift for myself much earlier in the year

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Chris from Lafayette

In Reply to: RE: I've Lost Track Over The Years, But.... posted by howard on December 25, 2023 at 19:12:57

That was the $150 AppleTV 4K device which has allowed me to access the veritable treasure trove of Dolby Atmos recordings in discreet channels (5.1.4 in my case) now available on Apple Music. I've been in hog heaven ever since!

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Upgraded from a plain Jim Beam to Jim Beam Rye and I have have to say - Wojciech 19:37:25 12/26/23 (2)
it's way smoother and the highs are way more pleasing with lows less unpleasing.
- RE: Upgraded from a plain Jim Beam to Jim Beam Rye and I have have to say - JoeKool 17:47:16 12/31/23 (0)
  Hell yeah, got a bottle of Japanese whisky, Hibiki. Didn't expect it to taste so smooth...yum yum.
- Yeah - I guess it's SOMETHING like that [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 01:27:04 12/27/23 (0)
RE: I got my Christmas gift for myself much earlier in the year - AbeCollins 13:59:03 12/26/23 (4)
Chris, I'm not familiar with mult-channel music but I know that you and a couple others have elaborate setups to take advantage of it. How would you rate the Atmos offerings available via Apple Music and the AppleTV box to the specialty downloads that you have historically listened to?

I think Kal R. is also into multi-channel music.

My only Dolby Atoms experience is with some movies via AppleTV and a TV soundbar, rear surrounds, and a subwoofer.
- Abe - see my reply to Javier below. I basically agree with what he posted [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 01:46:29 12/27/23 (1)
  - Interesting read and I missed - AbeCollins 11:46:47 12/27/23 (0)
    I missed your post back in July.
    
    Thanks!
- Atmos for classical - Javier 21:23:26 12/26/23 (1)
  Is just great , it puts you right in the concert hall, there are some in jazz and some in pop music worth listening to, but classical sound so natural, is worth the investment.
  - Javier, I very much agree with what you say - Chris from Lafayette 01:25:39 12/27/23 (0)
    I would go so far as to say that if you're NOT listening with Dolby Atmos (with discreet channels), you're missing part of the sound field. (And, as Javier suggests, this mainly applies to classical recordings.)
    
    HOWEVER (and this will be a killer for some listeners), the resolution of Dolby Atmos on Apple Music is lossy 24/48. For me it's more important to have the whole sound field in all its dimensions than it is to have the nth degree of lossless resolution. (And I'm familiar with 5Ch and 5.1Ch surround recordings, having downloaded and enjoyed DSD256 and DXD files. But even hi-rez surround misses conjuring up the whole sound field like Dolby Atmos does.) Streaming Dolby Atmos is now at the point where stereo streaming was ten or twenty years ago - I'm sure that higher and lossless rez will become available for Dolby Atmos eventually. You can hear lossless Dolby Atmos on blu-ray, but the selection is pitiful compared to what's on Apple Music - or Amazon Music (which I have no experience with - I've read that the algorithms which generate the lossy files are slightly different between the two companies). I think there may be one other streaming service which offers Dolby Atmos, but I can't remember which one it is.
    
    Also, please don't make the mistake of judging Dolby Atmos on the basis of a 2Ch mixdown. Almost all the experiences people have had with the mixdown invariably indicate that it sounds muddy. You absolutely need the discrete channels IMHO.
    
    Anyway, I wrote up my experience integrating Apple TV 4K and the paid version of Apple Music into my system this past July (link below).
    - https://www.audioasylum.com/audio/music/classical/messages/3 (Open in New Window)

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