Listening to in Dolby Atmos Streaming, via Tidal/Apple/Amazon

[steelydave]

Bradshaw Leigh did these mixes?

 

[Monkish]

Howard Jones - Celebrating Together
Six mixes by Bob Clearmountain
https://tidal.com/album/347018835

For those who are curious, somewhere along the way, Apple fixed the issue where every track started with anywhere from seven to twelve seconds of silence -- all of the songs now play properly (thank goodness)!

 

[Oldschoolsoundengineer]

Links for the Billy Joel albums:

Only Turnstiles in atmos on Tidal from what I found. The other two in 360. https://tidal.com/album/356170618?u

Bradshaw Leigh credited as immersive engineer on Turnstiles at Tidal.

 

[Tobes22]

Links for the Billy Joel albums:

Only Turnstiles in atmos on Tidal from what I found. The other two in 360. https://tidal.com/album/356170618?u

Bradshaw Leigh credited as immersive engineer on Turnstiles at Tidal.

Not seeing Atmos for The Stranger here in UK. Anyone else finding the same?

 

[Bretho72]

Links for the Billy Joel albums:

Only Turnstiles in atmos on Tidal from what I found. The other two in 360. https://tidal.com/album/356170618?u

Bradshaw Leigh credited as immersive engineer on Turnstiles at Tidal.

How awesome is it when you see these classics in Atmos rather all the new pop stuff.

 

[Tobes22]

This link seems to be the Atmos version in UK

 

[Tobes22]

Why even bother with the Billy Joel albums in Atmos? After waiting a long time for The Stranger to be “Atmosed” it’s such a disappointment. The 5.1 SACD is 100 times better. There also seems to be instruments missing in this Atmos mix. It’s a very strange upload

 

[woody]

I listened to Billy Joel: Turnstiles. To my ear it sounded really good

 

[woody]

I listened to Billy Joel: Turnstiles. To my ear it sounded really good

Just re-read my post. I must've been listening to it in mono.

 

[chescowx]

Finally got through all 3 Billy Joel Atmos mixes...certainly different from the old 5.1 mixes but in my opinion now the definitive immersive records! Lots of activity all around especially with horns and synth placements on many of the tracks. Nice work!! Let's hope the rest of the catalog gets this treatment!!

 

[himey]

Why even bother with the Billy Joel albums in Atmos? After waiting a long time for The Stranger to be “Atmosed” it’s such a disappointment. The 5.1 SACD is 100 times better. There also seems to be instruments missing in this Atmos mix. It’s a very strange upload

What are you listening on?

 

[fredblue]

not all but the majority of Eurovision 2024 entries are in Atmos

 

[Tobes22]

What are you listening on?

A 7.4.2 full atmos set up. I have only listened to The Stranger so far, but it was very underwhelming. It's very front-heavy (like Innocent Man). As this had a great 5.1 mix, I had high hopes. But to me, the Drums are too loud, the vocals are too quiet, and there's no real separation of instruments like there is on the SACD. Since my first comment, I listened to The Stranger on headphones, and it sounded much better. It's still quite an odd mix with vox quiet and drums very prominent, but the basslines are lovely and separate when listening on headphones.

 

[himey]

A 7.4.2 full atmos set up. I have only listened to The Stranger so far, but it was very underwhelming. It's very front-heavy (like Innocent Man). As this had a great 5.1 mix, I had high hopes. But to me, the Drums are too loud, the vocals are too quiet, and there's no real separation of instruments like there is on the SACD. Since my first comment, I listened to The Stranger on headphones, and it sounded much better. It's still quite an odd mix with vox quiet and drums very prominent, but the basslines are lovely and separate when listening on headphones.

How do you like Machine Head? Does it translate to your particular 7.1.4 system well?

 

[mkt]

Is this the real reason for Ben Fold's recent divorce (yes it's #5)?

 

[benfolds5]

Why even bother with the Billy Joel albums in Atmos? After waiting a long time for The Stranger to be “Atmosed” it’s such a disappointment. The 5.1 SACD is 100 times better. There also seems to be instruments missing in this Atmos mix. It’s a very strange upload

Scenes From An Italian Restaurant is one of my all time favorite songs. I heard it countless times.
This mix is one of the laziest efforts that I've heard of an Atmos mix.
Some cymbals, a bit of drums and that's it?!
I played the 5.1 SACD and there's a night and day difference between them.
If all of the albums sound that way, it will be very disappointing.

 

[dobyblue]

So Oasis Supersonic is up in Atmos on Apple apparently?

 

[chescowx]

A 7.4.2 full atmos set up. I have only listened to The Stranger so far, but it was very underwhelming. It's very front-heavy (like Innocent Man). As this had a great 5.1 mix, I had high hopes. But to me, the Drums are too loud, the vocals are too quiet, and there's no real separation of instruments like there is on the SACD. Since my first comment, I listened to The Stranger on headphones, and it sounded much better. It's still quite an odd mix with vox quiet and drums very prominent, but the basslines are lovely and separate when listening on headphones.

Mine sounds great on my full atmos set up - very immersive excellent job IMHO!

 

[chescowx]

Scenes From An Italian Restaurant is one of my all time favorite songs. I heard it countless times.
This mix is one of the laziest efforts that I've heard of an Atmos mix.
Some cymbals, a bit of drums and that's it?!
I played the 5.1 SACD and there's a night and day difference between them.
If all of the albums sound that way, it will be very disappointing.

Different ears I guess....the ATMOS mix on my system is now the standard over the 5.1 SACD which I have played back to back. Just much more depth to the ATMOS version vs the SACD in my opinion.

 

[benfolds5]

Different ears I guess....the ATMOS mix on my system is now the standard over the 5.1 SACD which I have played back to back. Just much more depth to the ATMOS version vs the SACD in my opinion.

No way that it's a different ears issue my friend.
Do you hear any separation in this song? Do you heard any discrete instruments in the surround or height level?
I pinned my ears to the left/right surrounds for 30 seconds each time and they are just mimicking the fronts.
Maybe this is an old mix and new one still hasn't uploaded in my territory?
I don't know what it is but there's no way that this is a proper Atmos mix. At least on my Apple tv 4K.
I'll try again tomorrow.