Tidal's Dolby Atmos tracks are awesome =)

[khaliss]

Been using Tidal for a couple of months now with my setup, but never actually tried their Dolby-Atmos enabled content.. turns out there's a lot! A few weeks ago, I acquired a used Yamaha Aventage RX-A2070 Dolby-Atmos 9.2 AVR, but never bothered to try out Tidal's Atmos library... till last night =) The Tidal-integration on Yamaha's MusicCast app doesn't appear to support playback of Atmos-enabled songs, only sees them as 2-channel PCM. However, when I use the Tidal app & playback Atmos tracks using Chromecast (Google-TV dongle), it shows on the AVR's UI that the audio signal/source is indeed in full Dolby Atmos/DD+ format:

Have to say, it's really awesome... these Atmos tracks sound quite immersive/enveloping & 3-dimensional! I'll have to disagree with listeners who claim it's just "gimmicky"... I can't wait to try out more tracks later tonight, I want to do some Atmos vs Stereo comparisons =)

 

[Thighsofsteel]

I like a lot of the Atmos content on Tidal. Some is a bit over engineered and rather false, but there are some great albums and tracks.

 

[rossco]

Been using Tidal for a couple of months now with my setup, but never actually tried their Dolby-Atmos enabled content.. turns out there's a lot! A few weeks ago, I acquired a used Yamaha Aventage RX-A2070 Dolby-Atmos 9.2 AVR, but never bothered to try out Tidal's Atmos library... till last night =) The Tidal-integration on Yamaha's MusicCast app doesn't appear to support playback of Atmos-enabled songs, only sees them as 2-channel PCM. However, when I use the Tidal app & playback Atmos tracks using Chromecast (Google-TV dongle), it shows on the AVR's UI that the audio signal/source is indeed in full Dolby Atmos/DD+ format:

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Have to say, it's really awesome... these Atmos tracks sound quite immersive/enveloping & 3-dimensional! I'll have to disagree with listeners who claim it's just "gimmicky"... I can't wait to try out more tracks later tonight, I want to do some Atmos vs Stereo comparisons =)

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Is there any streaming services using dts X (the other better "Atmos". I listen to Blu ray surround sound albums mixed and mastered in "Atmos" surround sound and it's amazing, would be great if there's DTS X streaming.

It's really cool more people are getting into surround sound. Awsome!