Article: Embracing Immersive Audio

[Sal1950]

Just thought I'd mention, I did my first full listen to the Peter Gabriel - I/O  BluRay disc last night.

Most excellent, better than I expected.

YMMV

[The Computer Audiophile]

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

[botrytis]

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

 

To me, it is no different than them extolling MQA - they have their religious audio ideals they need to support.

[The Computer Audiophile]

1 minute ago, botrytis said:

 

To me, it is no different than them extolling MQA - they have their religious audio ideals they need to support.

 

How many swings and misses can a publication make.

[firedog]

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.

[botrytis]

46 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

 

How many swings and misses can a publication make.

 

They lost me a long time ago - so only once.

[DuckToller]

1 hour ago, firedog said:

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.

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?

 

[firedog]

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. 

[Sal1950]

21 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

See my recent reply to the his sad rant there.  Let's see if it survives.

 

"Sal1950

Submitted by Sal1950 on January 19, 2024 - 5:57am

Why the constant negativity towards Atmos or anything multich for that matter? Rather than promote the SOTA in immersive audio and then encourage a change to a lossless stream, all you can do is continue to berate. Lossless Atmos files are huge and very demanding of bandwidth but it could be done if the market demands. It took us decades of asking for the lossless streaming of 2ch before it became a reality. Stereophile has had it's head on backwards towards surround sound ever since J. Gordon Holt left over the issue and the loss of Kal's Rubinson's "In The Round" put the final nail in it's coffin at this magazine. While over at The Absolute Sound multich coverage continues and expands with things like Robert Harley's October 2023, 8 page article on the building of the new HT/Music room in his home.
Mr Austin, your short sighted vision of High Fidelity's SOTA is slowly leading this magazine into the stone age and to it's demise. I highly suggest you step down and turn the reins over to someone with a wider view of High Performance Audio.
Sal1950"