The only place I've seen the pre-order is eBay Germany (0602435511610 | eBay)
I hate to say it, but I really can't see Dolby Atmos music really taking off. Hardly anyone (relative to 8+ BILLION people) has Atmos at all, let alone an interest in sitting in their living or home theater room and listening to music on it. Unless they can do a convincing binaural presentation on headphones (conversion), it'll likely do worse than 5.1 music did (which is to say terrible). A lot of people have 5.1 type systems for movies (even if they're crappy sound bars). How many buy music in 5.1? They're all on here....
Now you might be able to get clubs to do some Dolby Atmos albums (imagine a 34 speaker Atmos club system with techno flying all around the room like on My Future Self. I can see that getting some limited demand. Charging $30+ an album isn't helping to sell them either. Basic business 101. Demand = low, price = high, but too high prices also = low demand. It's a catch-22.
10 Atmos albums for $300+ ? My god.... I'm buying most movies at $5-10 including Atmos these days. It'd be nice if iTunes or someone sold Atmos music albums that included the 2-channel version for the car or iPhone or whatever, but they don't seem to want to encourage "sales" anymore at all, just "rentals" through Apple Music so that would mean getting Tidal. But from what I've seen, Tidal often only includes a single track from an album like Dear Future Self. Yeah, that's no good either.
I guess that's why I'm looking at getting an Involve Audio processor when the new version comes out in January and start buying old Quad LPs (which seem to average $8-12 online on eBay, often still shrink wrapped and never played). As bad as support was for them, compared to today, they got a load of mainstream artists to release some albums in it. SACD tried, but failed to interest the mainstream. Part of the problem is the high cost of equipment and album prices. Sorry, but no one wants to pay $35 an album, especially when they're just encoded like a Pro Logic movie (i.e. just milking the market). I used to buy a LOT more music when it averaged $8-10 an album (whether through older prices or BMG/Columbia Record Buy 1 get 4 to 8 free type deals.... Then I bought "tracks" of songs I liked, but knew the rest of the album sucked. Now I have no idea what to buy and sites like Pandora have done NOTHING for me to find new music. I put in Pink Floyd or Tori Amos and it plays the same 3 artists it thinks I might like (but don't) over and over again. Blech. I haven't played Pandora in probably 10 years as a result....
I hate to say it, but I really can't see Dolby Atmos music really taking off. Hardly anyone (relative to 8+ BILLION people) has Atmos at all, let alone an interest in sitting in their living or home theater room and listening to music on it. Unless they can do a convincing binaural presentation on headphones (conversion), it'll likely do worse than 5.1 music did (which is to say terrible). A lot of people have 5.1 type systems for movies (even if they're crappy sound bars). How many buy music in 5.1? They're all on here....
Now you might be able to get clubs to do some Dolby Atmos albums (imagine a 34 speaker Atmos club system with techno flying all around the room like on My Future Self. I can see that getting some limited demand. Charging $30+ an album isn't helping to sell them either. Basic business 101. Demand = low, price = high, but too high prices also = low demand. It's a catch-22.
10 Atmos albums for $300+ ? My god.... I'm buying most movies at $5-10 including Atmos these days. It'd be nice if iTunes or someone sold Atmos music albums that included the 2-channel version for the car or iPhone or whatever, but they don't seem to want to encourage "sales" anymore at all, just "rentals" through Apple Music so that would mean getting Tidal. But from what I've seen, Tidal often only includes a single track from an album like Dear Future Self. Yeah, that's no good either.
I guess that's why I'm looking at getting an Involve Audio processor when the new version comes out in January and start buying old Quad LPs (which seem to average $8-12 online on eBay, often still shrink wrapped and never played). As bad as support was for them, compared to today, they got a load of mainstream artists to release some albums in it. SACD tried, but failed to interest the mainstream. Part of the problem is the high cost of equipment and album prices. Sorry, but no one wants to pay $35 an album, especially when they're just encoded like a Pro Logic movie (i.e. just milking the market). I used to buy a LOT more music when it averaged $8-10 an album (whether through older prices or BMG/Columbia Record Buy 1 get 4 to 8 free type deals.... Then I bought "tracks" of songs I liked, but knew the rest of the album sucked. Now I have no idea what to buy and sites like Pandora have done NOTHING for me to find new music. I put in Pink Floyd or Tori Amos and it plays the same 3 artists it thinks I might like (but don't) over and over again. Blech. I haven't played Pandora in probably 10 years as a result....
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