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for full Spacial Audio - which is incredible in a dedicated theater room with full atmos, and lossless audio)

Just a month or two ago we had a thread on Spacial Audio.

Is it a GIMMICK?

Dolby ATMOS. Listened with headphones - one way is sort of binaural, but no, it’s ATMOS. Get an old pair of Bose 901 speakers and put a band over them to make em into headphones. Well that’s not quite my view. Heard the ELAC speakers with the ATMOS tops - did not sound bad. But did it change the timber of the ELACS? I remember early 4 channel sound. Dynaco made a little mixing box, and there were quadraphonic records. Done right, you did lose some of the local room sound. Best implementation I h…

I think it’s great in the movies. Please take a look at the thread for a lot of the other folks views. Interesting technology. It might be good for music originally recorded in spatial, but I’m not a fan of what they’ve done remastering older music for spatial. Except for the Jackson 5 who sound awesome in Spatial.