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I have become a huge fan of Apple Music Spatial Audio, and I regularly review the Now in Spatial Audio listing to discover new Dolby Atmos music. The experience of well-crafted Atmos mixes in my home theater room has revitalized my interest in music - at its best, the sonic experience is revelatory.
Over time I have become more interested in new music, which at its best takes greater advantage of the larger canvas afforded by Atmos to the artists and engineers. Prioritizing Atmos mixes has broken me out of a rut to discover artists and genres that I had previously discounted.
And while not all of the after-the-fact mixes sound like improvements to me, many do. Check out The Allman Brothers' Melissa from Eat a Peach for a good example.
All that said, I have tried toggling Atmos on and off on the Android app with earbuds in, and I can't tell the difference - at best, the binaural downmix of Atmos is a pale shadow of the 9.2.6 experience.
This brings me to my question. Playing Atmos cuts from a 2021 Apple TV 4K through a Trinnov Altitude 16 works well generally, but I cannot play one particular album. It's Noah Cyrus' The Hardest Part. It will play a couple of the tracks, but the ATV4K skips or quickly goes silent for most of them. (My ATV4K software is up to date as of today.) I suspect that the Apple Music-hosted bitstream files needed to deliver Atmos to a processor are corrupt. I wonder if anyone else can reproduce this, either with the A16 or another HT processor.
More generally, has anyone experienced this with other Apple Music Atmos content delivered by the ATV4K?
Over time I have become more interested in new music, which at its best takes greater advantage of the larger canvas afforded by Atmos to the artists and engineers. Prioritizing Atmos mixes has broken me out of a rut to discover artists and genres that I had previously discounted.
And while not all of the after-the-fact mixes sound like improvements to me, many do. Check out The Allman Brothers' Melissa from Eat a Peach for a good example.
All that said, I have tried toggling Atmos on and off on the Android app with earbuds in, and I can't tell the difference - at best, the binaural downmix of Atmos is a pale shadow of the 9.2.6 experience.
This brings me to my question. Playing Atmos cuts from a 2021 Apple TV 4K through a Trinnov Altitude 16 works well generally, but I cannot play one particular album. It's Noah Cyrus' The Hardest Part. It will play a couple of the tracks, but the ATV4K skips or quickly goes silent for most of them. (My ATV4K software is up to date as of today.) I suspect that the Apple Music-hosted bitstream files needed to deliver Atmos to a processor are corrupt. I wonder if anyone else can reproduce this, either with the A16 or another HT processor.
More generally, has anyone experienced this with other Apple Music Atmos content delivered by the ATV4K?