Interested in your thoughts. I just listened to whole album and loved it.
Yeah. Glad that such a lush, beautiful song got the treatment it deserves.
I liked it very much. I don't think the streaming sound is quite as powerful sounding as the Legend blu-ray 5.1 mix but now we get the full album(s)! Yayyy!!!
I've only compared the two versions of the Legend hits comp (Bob Clearmountain's 5.1 mix on Blu-Ray and Nick Rives' Atmos mix on Apple/Tidal) - I like how the horns and some percussion pop up in the height speakers, but the Atmos mix is very dry and a bit lifeless-sounding in comparison to the 5.1. Listen to the backing vocals in "Jamming", they're treated with lots of reverb/delay in the 5.1 whereas they're just kind of 'there' and flat-sounding in the Atmos. I also thought I heard a percussion part in the rear speakers during "Exodus" on the 5.1 mix that was missing entirely from the Atmos mix.
This is really good sh*t in Atmos, half way through the record and really good 3D mix
I share completely your view about Legend, I keep on playing the Blu-ray and never returned to the streaming Atmos version. Yet the fidelity and sound quality of Exodus is much better than Legend, IMHO (listening in Apple Music)
Only listened to the first track so far -- and then only on headphones -- but this is wonderful!
This Atmos mix was released 35 years to the day that the album was released, yet with no fanfare (I doubt it was just a coincidence). I wonder if other future Whitney Houston Atmos mixes will be similarly timed to album release anniversaries.
