salsdali
1K Club - QQ Shooting Star
The point is though, if the original mix was 5.1 or 7.1, the most the Atmos system would or should do is deliver that 1:1 to a 5.1 or 7.1 speaker array and they should sound bit for bit identical. Now maybe they DID mix this album in ambisonic with height dimensions! Do they say so?
Did they say they didn't?
and atmos is an attempt to replicate what is heard in a multi speaker movie theater ported into a home theater
it has nothing to do with "lesser" quality anything
if you had the space you could install 34 speakers in your home and replicate the exact same atmos mix you would hear in a movie theater
most people don't have the space so we settle on adding 2 or 4 height speakers to simulate the effect of a movie theater
it works for small spaces and even just the addition of even 2 height speakers adds a 3D sensory experience to what was thoroughly 2D, even 7.1 is strictly 2D (one plane in a 3D xyz space). 34.1.0 would even still be 2D
we see the world in 3D - 3D movies are an attempt to replicate that
we hear the world in 3D - Atmos is an attempt to replicate that
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