Has anyone abandoned stereo for atmos for music?


I’m very happy with my 2 channel system, listening happily for hours a day. But I created a second system with a tv for obvious reasons. Somehow I didn’t realize all the music only mixes created for atmos. The object oriented mixing takes place based on your setup, mine happens to be 5.1, but I suppose you can add many more speakers.. but the lightbulb is that this sounds completely different from stereo. Some mixes are better than others, but the creativity in how music can be presented is thrilling.  Classical is adopting it for every release. And most modern artists. And retro re mixes like the talking heads catalog.  Since Apple is heavily invested it doesn’t seem like a fad like mqa. It’s also free to try. I’ve heard a setup at Axpona, but surprised that it isn’t embraced here. 

dain

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For those with sound quality as the priority for music will have a two channel system for music and a home theater. I do. The difference in sound quality for music given the same investment level in two channel vs multichannel is huge.

 

The number of ATMOS recordings are in the thousands I believe and two channel recordings in the millions.