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 heard of that was using 4 Polk SDA-1 (Wood Version) Circa 1985 speakers. Then came the various subwoofers and middle speakers 2.1 4.1 5.1 7.1 Trying to re-create movies.
And don’t get me wrong - Dolby sounds good in theaters. Don’ know if it’s the new ATMOS or not.
I was listening to some of the pointers from the Dolby page to videos on artists using ATMOS [using Audeze LCDi3 and Cipher Cable], mixing engineers, all kind of stuff. Immersive, they say. Too much reverb I say. Immersive they say. Yes, when this girl speaks or sings it sounds as if I’m in her mouth. I don’t need that realism - reminds me of Rosanne Hosannasana Saturday Night Live looking under her tongue.
The link below has Billie Eilish video in ATMOS. Supposed to be ATMOS on Apple Music, Prime Music and TIDAL.
Apple even has a support page:
You need to listen to it a bit. For me, it’s fine for movies. But for audio???