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kieron115@startrek.website 2 days agoI’m not sure but Dolby Atmos might be responsible for some of it. Dolby Atmos lets the engineers assign coordinate values to each sound “object” in the scene, then your receiver takes that information, along with the room calibration mic info and your speaker layout, and actually generates the channels itself based on the listeners “position” within the scene. Maybe engineers just not putting as much work into making discrete channel audio mixes anymore when the “gold standard” no longer uses discrete channels.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 2 days ago
For people with Atmos-supporting audio equipment, this is actually an improvement. My rear surrounds aren’t in the same place as yours, and my system knows that, so I can hear the positioning the audio engineer intended.
kieron115@startrek.website 2 days ago
Yeah, full disclosure I have a full atmos system and it’s a noticeable improvement in positional accuracy over even DTS-HD Master. I wish there were less expensive solutions though so that it could go mainstream.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 days ago
My front speakers have Atmos but my rears don’t.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 days ago
But Atmos is a receiver level technology?
How does a speaker "have Atmos"?
P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It has to have upward drives to really have Atmos. It needs the ability to bounce it off other surfaces for it to really be Atmos.