Article: Embracing Immersive Audio

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19 hours ago, JoeWhip said:

I have had conversations with folks at Dolby involved with Atmos. They are pushing the labels to release TrueHD Atmos discs as they fully realize how much better they sound than DD+. Hopefully we will see more. Besides the DD+ v. trueHD issue. I have found the physical media conundrum. One of my favorite mixes still is the Bob James Feels like making live album. Downloaded from Immersive Audio Album in a MKV file, it sounds sensational. Until I grabbed the 4k ultra HD Blu ray release. The physical media sounds better in every way,. Maybe it is the player v. The Nvidia Shield, who knows, but give us more physical media. Are you listening Don Was?

Why can't they just release the TrueHD as a download?

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4 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Ah yes, preaching Atmos abstinence is a sure fire way to… checking notes … prove one is an out of touch celibate preacher who is an Atmos virgin. 
 

@Jim Austin admits to never listening to that which he excoriates. Rather than teach people how to get the best out of what’s available, he wishes for its demise and appeals to authority. 

 

https://www.stereophile.com/content/dolby-atmos-bleak-shadow

Let's see...they embraced, pushed for, and lied about MQA, in spite of the fact that it clearly offerred little, if anything, to the audiophile. Yet they denigrate ATMOS - which clearly offers much to the listener.

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11 hours ago, DuckToller said:

Which is the audience that Mr. Austin serves?
All registered and unregistered members of the American Audiophile Society and their relatives, direct and distant bloodlines ?
Or may he focus on the best interest of the industry that funds his paycheck and which has his income already included as sunk cost of advertising in their product pricing?

 

He's specifically said what's important to him is "the industry". That's shorthand for him and his old school cronies, plus a certain group of manufacturers he's buddies with and hangs out with at shows, etc. He isn't there for the consumer who buys the industry products. In relation to MQA he wrote that we should all accept it as it was good for "the industry". IOW, accept it - even if it is bad for us.