What are you listening to Today?

[arkansasbob]

rip dusty hill

[Guisslapp]

Inu, Guiss, and others ...

What are your thoughts on the new trend of Atmos / Spatial / 360 surround music tracks that the industry seems to be pushing lately? (I know the technology isn't necessarily new, but the big streaming services now appear to be jumping on the bandwagon.)

It is interesting, but I think it is more beneficial for film (especially obviating reason for installing 5.1 or 7.1 speaker systems) and some types of music like atmospheric styles, experimental and electronic.

Unless you were born with an extra ear, we really only hear in stereo anyway and the brain interprets the space, so it makes sense that simulated “spatial” 2.0 could be just as good.

[inudesu]

Inu, Guiss, and others ...

What are your thoughts on the new trend of Atmos / Spatial / 360 surround music tracks that the industry seems to be pushing lately? (I know the technology isn't necessarily new, but the big streaming services now appear to be jumping on the bandwagon.)

I'm going to give what I've come to expect as a typical BB&B answer and say that since I don't really know much about it, I'll have to look into it and think about it some more before I'd feel comfortable weighing in.

[Champ967]

I'm going to give what I've come to expect as a typical BB&B answer and say that since I don't really know much about it, I'll have to look into it and think about it some more before I'd feel comfortable weighing in.

WHAT?! Are you new here?! Dont you know you're supposed to make some crap up and then blindly defend it for honor?

[Champ967]

It is interesting, but I think it is more beneficial for film (especially obviating reason for installing 5.1 or 7.1 speaker systems) and some types of music like atmospheric styles, experimental and electronic.

Unless you were born with an extra ear, we really only hear in stereo anyway and the brain interprets the space, so it makes sense that simulated “spatial” 2.0 could be just as good.

On the whole, I think that when it's good, it can be really good. Sweet Child O Mine, for example, sounds like Axl & Izzy are right in front of you and Slash & Duff are behind you. (I'd add that some classical mixes can sound incredible too.)

But I've also found some Atmos-enhanced tracks that, imo, didnt really add anything. I've got a kid currently into that Olivia singer. Her tracks sound substantially the same to me with and without spatial.

And some Atmos mixes I feel actually detract from the original. Whoever spatial-ized the Replacements "Please to Meet Me" sounds like they were just playing around with the equipment to see what would happen.

[JuBru]

And some Atmos mixes I feel actually detract from the original. Whoever spatial-ized the Replacements "Please to Meet Me" sounds like they were just playing around with the equipment to see what would happen.

You're describing all music.

[arkansasbob]

It is interesting, but I think it is more beneficial for film (especially obviating reason for installing 5.1 or 7.1 speaker systems) and some types of music like atmospheric styles, experimental and electronic.

Unless you were born with an extra ear, we really only hear in stereo anyway and the brain interprets the space, so it makes sense that simulated “spatial” 2.0 could be just as good.

makes sense, but it assumes you only sense music with your ears.

you really can make stereo feel 3D though. i remember listening to a song intro in the early 90's on a cheap pair of headphones that sounded exactly like a horse running behind me from right to left.

[Champ967]

You're describing all music.

[dawg80]

rip dusty hill

Just heard about this...wow! this is horrible. Saw them in concert 3 times...once at Tech. No words...

[inudesu]

and (for that sweet, sweet cuica sound):



Sometimes I confuse cuica for quokka, which is not the same thing. Good song though, and the cuica really makes it work in my opinion.

[inudesu]

[arkansasbob]

rip nanci griffith

[inudesu]

rip nanci griffith

What?!? Oh, man.

[inudesu]

[HogDawg]

GREAT song, Inudesu. You knocked it out of the park with this one. "Signs" --a song mostly about generational bias and bigotry back in the 60's and 70's-- has proven to have legs for the last 50 years. The song's lyrics --"Do this, Don't Do That, Can't You Read The Sign", are just as powerful today as they were in 1971. Especially with today's signs about COVID, mask wearing, get your vaccine, etc.... People just love to tell other people what to do. This is a song with powerful lyrics that will still be admired a hundred years from now.