Four Lorde albums dropped today too!! Maybe Solar Power was already here??




Now check this out!! Perhaps another reason why Apple is the tops right now for Atmos...who else does this sort of thing?? It does have some really cool ambiance and seems to be designed for headphones/pods but so cool! Niles voice is very soothing and comforting!!
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Listened to a couple of tracks from ‘Pure Heroine’. Seemed to me to be vastly superior to ‘Solar Power’. IIRC she won a grammy for the earlier incarnation.Four Lorde albums dropped today too!! Maybe Solar Power was already here??
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Maybe @timbre4 could move it? (Thread clean-up responsibility seems to have fallen largely on him lately....)I mean I get the desire for a dedicated streaming thread, but doesn't it still belong in the Atmos forum?
Thanks for the heads up and THANKS for the high resolution image of the single cover!Continuing the Christmas theme... Macca makes his Dolby Atmos debut?
Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime
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Apple Music - Wonderful Christmastime
Tidal - Wonderful Christmastime
Nice mix with sleigh bells in the rear channels. I'll have to dig out the old 5.1 video DVD to compare. Immersive mix credited to Giles Martin/Steve Orchard
The dulcet voice of the wonderful Nat King Cole
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A Sentimental Christmas with Nat "King" Cole and Friends: Cole Classics Reimagined by Nat "King" Cole
Album · 2021 · 11 Songsmusic.apple.com
It can be a Hobsons Choice, Adam, for the quality of the Atmos mixes.i tried this out on Tidal a week or so ago, from what i can remember the Johnny Mathis duet had each of them in their own channel (i.e. one of 'em singing in the L & the other diamond geezer over in the R!) which i enjoyed but most of the others had it all kinda lumped in the Centre, which was a bit.. lumpy dumpy!
ah idk i'm getting a bit wearisome with all the technical balls-up's of this streaming shite, playing the Oneohtrix Atmos in Apple Music atm, the Surround-y-ness is really really f'in' good -- but some tracks aren't loading up at all and one just stopped midway for no reason. ugh. a few Kinks to iron out and not a Waterloo Sunset in sight!
Who would have thought that the Atmos mixing engineer could work miracles with this 1964 release, Will...bring on the Beach Boys full repertoire!! Especially my personal favourites, the albums Sunflower and Surfs Up.The Beach Boys - The Beach Boys' Christmas Album
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Apple Music - The Beach Boys' Christmas Album
Tidal - The Beach Boys' Christmas Album
This sounds pretty good! A lot better then I was expecting for an album from 1964. Hopefully a precursor to a full on Pet Sounds Atmos remix?!
As far as we know, these are not simple upmixes. Dolby contracted a bunch of engineers and had them mix a couple thousand tracks in Atmos, which explains the scattershot approach to the back catalog (5 Queen songs, misc Motown, a couple Doors songs, just Rocketman from Elton John, and so on and so forth). Tidal actually lets you check on the mixing engineer on a lot of tracks if you're curious.I just upgraded my system with some Atmos speakers, and I honestly do not understand all this Atmos streaming on Tidal/Apple. Surely these are just upmixes, right? No one suddenly sat down and laboriously remixed so many songs, in surround let alone Atmos. Anyways, listened on Tidal and it sounded pretty bad. Seems to be a consensus on other sites, everything is too quiet and the mixes are meh at best; I'm honestly surprised anyone on this site bothers (what with the calibre of listeners we have here).
I did listen to The Future Bites and Abbey Road on Blu-Ray and those were quite good. Just not sure I understand the streaming bit.
They are not upmixes. There is a lot of surround mixing investment in Atmos at the moment. I have Abbey Road on disc and streaming. My opinion is that it is pretty meh on either formats- and I have heard far more discrete mixes on streaming. I don’t know what other sites you are reading, but I know that they would not have the expansive exposure to all surround content and experience of surround listening as here. As for Tidal you are right on the volume issue. I am seriously considering dropping it as a platform as the are no longer listing Atmos tracks on their start-up screen which makes the Search for titles near impossible without this forum.I just upgraded my system with some Atmos speakers, and I honestly do not understand all this Atmos streaming on Tidal/Apple. Surely these are just upmixes, right? No one suddenly sat down and laboriously remixed so many songs, in surround let alone Atmos. Anyways, listened on Tidal and it sounded pretty bad. Seems to be a consensus on other sites, everything is too quiet and the mixes are meh at best; I'm honestly surprised anyone on this site bothers (what with the calibre of listeners we have here).
I did listen to The Future Bites and Abbey Road on Blu-Ray and those were quite good. Just not sure I understand the streaming bit.
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