I swapped my music listening from stereo to spatial for a week – here are 5 things I learned

[What Hi-Fi?]

To gauge how far Dolby Atmos music has come in the past three years, I listened exclusively to spatial audio songs for seven days...

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[SteppingStone01]

Most of your points are quite valid. It sounds to me like you were using Tidal for your test. It has the worst volume variation between song types out of all of the Dolby Atmos supported Services. Also, the search is horrid on there.

Amazon Music, on the other hand, doesn't have a huge variation of volume and is easy to search for Dolby Atmos content using the search bar.

 

[knreddy]

I fully agree with the observations, further I have moved from Atmos to Mono Samsung MX T70/XL with the above experience, I am comfortable and happy with move.

 

[pjrobar]

The 50th Anniversary Apple Spatial Audio mix of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon is superb. The bass in Time might bring tears to your eyes or cause a shiver if you have full range speakers or a sub.