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20th June 2021, 17:40 | #1 | Link |
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Are there any Dolby Atmos Radio Stations?
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I generally listen to Capital London in DAB, but that's just as little as 64 kbit/s in HE-AAC v2 2ch 44100Hz stereo. There are other radio stations like BBC Radio One which is better as it goes up to AAC-LC 320 kbit/s 44100Hz stereo. Still, no Dolby Atmos or 7.1 or 5.1 whatsoever. Are there any streaming services or radio stations (excluding apple music for apple devices) that currently support anything more than plain old Stereo? Last edited by FranceBB; 20th June 2021 at 21:18. |
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I didn't know that some contents were in 5.1... About Tidal, I'll give it a shot. Well, given how much Apple has been advertising the usage of Atmos in music, I thought I would give it a go and see if it's worth it or not. An Atmos compatible with a very normal consumer setup which I upgraded from my old 5.1 to 7.1, nothing too fancy: Front Left Front Right Center LFE Mid Left Mid Right Surround Left Surround Right Quote:
Anyway, I was finally able to listen to one of those streams from and I gotta say that I'm very very disappointed. The song was: The Weeknd - Save your tears The reason why I picked that one is that... well... I like the Weeknd and I already had that song in Stereo. I also suspected that it was recorded in stereo but since there was the Atmos stream there, I was like: What the heck, I'll give it a go. When I listened to it, it was... well... rubbish. It honestly didn't add anything to the song as the additional channels were filled with reverb and pretty much nothing else was coming out from them... After all, this confirmed my suspects that the song was made and recorded in stereo, so what they put there was a pretty poor upmix... Last edited by FranceBB; 22nd June 2021 at 12:44. |
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OK, so you have a 5.1.2 system, I would suggest you prefix "mid" speakers with top , otherwise there's no indication that they are at the top. RE the Weeknd, they did an Atmos mix, as this article shows, but unfortunately, it might be a bad mix as you said. Try listening to Donna summer - Last dance Booka shade - Atlantic Beam (Dear future album) Kraftwerk - Pocket calculator (3-d catalogue album) in Atmos. Verify the atmos badge is on the song or album. ED: also, can you play back m2ts files on your system? Last edited by junh1024; 23rd June 2021 at 08:59. |
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Ah, I see.
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Yep, m2ts from official blurays work like a charm and the audio is very good as well! In action movies explosions, planes flying, shots etc are all over the place, it's very cool. |
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You might find the following useful:
https://www.avsforum.com/threads/all...tidal.3195540/ https://www.avsforum.com/threads/whe...music.3193496/ Cheers
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