Breaking Story: Washed up pop stars try to remain relevant/rich by repackaging their catalogs in buzzy new format .Yawn.
Do NOT Blow Your Entire Budget on Two Channel Audio
Yes, two channel audio is here, and is not going away. However, object based audio is delightful, widely available on Tidal and Apple Music, and should be in the listening room of every music lover on the planet, not just "audiophiles. If you plan to be a music fan a year from now start building your object based audio system today. You will need:
1) A receiver/processor capable of Dolby Atmos.
2) A subscription to Tidal or Apple music.
3) A Firestick, ATV, or Nvidia Shield.
4) A minimum of 7 timber matched speakers and a subwoofer.
Once you experienced stereo would you ever go back to only mono? No, you would build a system capable of either mono or stereo. Now that object based audio has arrived do the same thing. Build a system capable of mono, stereo, AND object based audio. When Elton John heard Rocket Man in an object based format for the first time why did he demand to convert his entire catalog to Atmos? If you don’t know, then you need to go listen to Rocket Man in a good Atmos setup ASAP.
So, take your budget, DIVERSIFY, and get a good Atmos capable receiver or processor. Object based audio is NOT last decades surround sound or home theater. It is for MUSIC first, if you need a recommendation on how to allocate your budget feel free to post a question. Most importantly, you don’t NEED two systems, one for music and one for movies. A good object based audio system can play two channel music just fine. A two channel system on the other hand can’t play object based audio without a proper processor or receiver.
Greg Penny talks mixing Rocket Man in Atmos.
https://youtu.be/ggzfcUKDqdo?feature=shared
Showing 8 responses by bikeboy52
@kota1 So let me try and understand this ( Im a little slow) All I need to do is 1.Treat my room. 2. Go down to Best Buy or Costco ,drop 2.5 grand on one of your consumer grade mid fi multi channel systems. 3. Subscribe to Tidal so I can stream their compressed files. Then I sit back push play and marvel at the magic emanating from the seven or nine or however many speakers it is as it blows me away from where I sit all alone in my one very specific spot ? and thats it ? Sounds to good to be true. Oh and I,m 63 yo btw I guess that factors in also, that’s probably realated to the ears I,ll bet. Thanks in advance for your reply. Btw, please try and temper your response as it could potentially be devastating to me and some of the other out of touch oldsters who’ve been trying to achieve high quality audio playback in a completely antiquated and more costly manner, which is to say buying actual high quality gear,Thanks again, |
My wife and I were at the mall last night. There was a gentleman there at one of the kiosk,s selling time shares. He was explaining all the advantages of owning one while listing all the disadvantages of other options ( Air b&b , hotels etc ) it reminded me of something else I,d been exposed to recently, but I can’t quite put my finger on it ???, It,ll come to me. |
@mahgister Thanks for the information on the Bacch filter. Just watched a few interesting videos on the technology and the product. I believe you may be correct Mahgister, depending on what they can get the price of the unit down to when in full production it looks like it could make Dolby Atmos the new MQA. |
@deep_333 Could you post a pic of your room with your 2 channel set up using Bacch? Id love to see that . Thanks in advance. |
Wow ,the way this new format is “ blowin up” maybe we should petition the owners or mods of Audiogon for a name change for the site. We could have a contest to see who comes up with the best new name, Im all for “Atmosbegon” whatta ya think? We need to act fast though,we don’t want to be caught with our pants down…… oh wait, nobody here really cares about current consumer electronics trends ………. Never mind. |