Do NOT Blow Your Entire Budget on Two Channel Audio

kota1

... if it was a high enough priority for Elton John to convert his entire catalog to Atmos as a HIGH priority. I think every fan of music should have budget for both types of files ...

You sound very impressionable. Many people are not so easily swayed by celebrity culture and social media "influencers." Good luck to you, because the next Big Thing is just around the corner. And then the Next Big Thing will be just around the corner after that.

hilde45

Not everyone needs to be in a Disney ride to enjoy and immerse in music. We are not children, needing to be gobsmacked and drooling at special effects.

Exactly! But that kind of faux excitement is exactly what many younger people have come to expect. They grew up exposed to much more artificial, processed music than they were real, live music. It’s the same with food, which in part is why you see some many obese kids these days.

britamerican

Two channel audio is an illusion. You get an okay illusion of the sound in front of you ... Where ATMOS is most superior is recreating a live event ...

Both two-channel audio and ATMOS create an illusion. It's perfectly fine to prefer one illusion to the other.

julie_priest

... it appears to me that most people who keep plugging all this Atmos stuff have no idea what proper 2-channel audio sounds like.

That’s probably true. But it seems their interests are mostly in spectacular sound effects and the posting of charts and graphs and links to YT videos. Meanwhile the rest of us are listening to music.

oliver_reid

... Atmos can put us sitting in the midst of a String quartet. Not a gimmick, a paradigm shift !

No, it’s a gimmick, and a tired, old one at that. In the early days of two-channel stereo, there were demo records with people playing ping-pong and trains that roared from one end of the room to the other. Some bands such as the Beatles made "stereo" albums with the vocals on one side and the instruments on the other. Immersive? Paradigm shift?

Then came quad with SQ, QS, CD-4 and discrete. Instruments could be made to swirl around you. You could be in the middle of a string quartet! Immersive? Paradigm shift?

Nope, just a gimmick that few people wanted. But I get that the OP is obsessed with "object based audio" so I hope he leaves room in his budget for some objects that will help add excitement to his experience. He should certainly have a few of these, perhaps one for each speaker:

deep_333

... the ill mannered carnival hyena that’s incapable of understanding technology returns ...

it's interesting that the two users advocating for this flash-bang technology share the same nasty, insulting arguments such as this ad hominem, the laziest of all logical fallacies.