Dolby Atmos with music

[FunkyMonkey]

Hi. If anyone has used a Dolby Atmos receiver with overhead channels engaged, for music listening, how does it sound?
I am aware it is likely to be pretend Atmos. The point is, does adding overhead speakers add to music?
E.g. for me, listening to 7.1 music really is good...talking mostly about SACD here.

 

[Benedict_Arnold]

Hi. If anyone has used a Dolby Atmos receiver with overhead channels engaged, for music listening, how does it sound? I am aware it is likely to be pretend Atmos. The point is, does adding overhead speakers add to music? E.g. for me, listening to 7.1 music really is good...talking mostly about SACD here.

Unless you're trying to re-create the effect of a musician "flying" round a concert on wires, Atmos really won't add anything that you like from surround sound as it is. Must check out some old Hawkwind to see how that works out though....

 

[bigboss]

Agreed. I've never been impressed with pseudo Atmos and hence have switched the option off. I found it distracting. True Atmos adds to the experience, but not pseudo Atmos.

Special Atmos blu rays for music will come, like this:

http://www.audiophile.no/music/record-news/item/1227-pure-audio-blu-ray-with-both-dolby-atmos-and-auro-3d-from-2l

 

[spiny norman]

Unless you're trying to re-create the effect of a musician "flying" round a concert on wires, Atmos really won't add anything that you like from surround sound as it is.

Apart from a stronger sense of the size and reverberation of a recording venue (if it's encoded into the recording, that is)

 

[Benedict_Arnold]

Yes, but do you need Atmos for that or just surround sound? Last time I saw Last Night of the Proms on telly, the double bassist wasn't runnign round, let alone flying over the Albert Hall audience.....

 

[spiny norman]

Yes, but do you need Atmos for that or just surround sound? Last time I saw Last Night of the Proms on telly, the double bassist wasn't runnign round, let alone flying over the Albert Hall audience.....

It's not a question of objects flying over the soundstage, but a better sense of the height and ambience of, say, a church in which the music was recorded. Surround isn't all about objects being placed in the various speakers, you know!