I'm not finding what I consider definitive answers. I read all I could find here and while trying to no be repetitive, I have some questions.
What are the known bitrates at which Tidal & Apple stream Atmos?
I saw 784 kbps which is pretty anemic.
Tidal talks about Master quality with 9216 kbps, but they don't say if that applies to Atmos and it appears not to (MQA issues aside). So what you can get is Uber-high quality stereo. Nice, but I want to listen to whichever service is sending an Atmos stream out the door at the highest rate. They all seem to want to hide that, which makes me believe they are sending it out at the screaming fast level I want.
The other part of this question is do we know if the stream-only Atmos mixes for the songs on these services are even encoded at bluray quality or are they not & just designed to be streamed out at the obviously much lower rates than physical media gives?
Any insight would be appreciated. I've read lots of educated guesses and tried to decipher the BS from the serices.
What are the known bitrates at which Tidal & Apple stream Atmos?
I saw 784 kbps which is pretty anemic.
Tidal talks about Master quality with 9216 kbps, but they don't say if that applies to Atmos and it appears not to (MQA issues aside). So what you can get is Uber-high quality stereo. Nice, but I want to listen to whichever service is sending an Atmos stream out the door at the highest rate. They all seem to want to hide that, which makes me believe they are sending it out at the screaming fast level I want.
The other part of this question is do we know if the stream-only Atmos mixes for the songs on these services are even encoded at bluray quality or are they not & just designed to be streamed out at the obviously much lower rates than physical media gives?
Any insight would be appreciated. I've read lots of educated guesses and tried to decipher the BS from the serices.