Describe the "new HiFi sound"?

@decooney

Like I said before, you need to have a system setup at home before you can properly evaluate anything. I think you are being dismissive out of ignorance.

BTW, you can do atmos with tubes like member @brianlucey , it is not an either or decision.

I have noticed that the dumbest comments (frankenmusic?) all come from people who don’t have an atmos setup and are clinging to legacy (antique?) two channel setups that they basically spent way too much money on. How else can they voice their bitterness of buyers remorse?

As for Martin Logan, great choice for an atmos system using their Motion AI speakers for surrounds and height channels in addition to those two towers:

https://www.audioadvice.com/videos-reviews/martinlogan-motion-home-theater-speaker-options

@kota1 re-read my post, already tried it. Did not like it yet. Not yet.

Yes I’ve actually chatted with Brian Lucey some, we have had some tube amplifiers in common. For common music, still prefer really good 2-channel stereo for now. 

Best of luck to you on your passion and research with Atmos. :)

Thin and bright since baffles are too small loudspeakers are too small designers of such are aiming for a more flat extension on top while the rest is overly small. Thus requiring baffle step corrections, impedance correction, requiring massive power to squeak out any SPL causing thermal compression toss in limited dynamic range and you have the modern fatiguing sound audiophiles crave and think is the absolute sound. No wonder so many hardly use systems or are on constant upgrade paths. The gear is designed to fatigue so you can buy new gear and repeat the cycle.

@johnk 

 No wonder so many hardly use systems or are on constant upgrade paths. The gear is designed to fatigue so you can buy new gear and repeat the cycle.

+1. that is why you hear the lamest acoustic recordings at audio shows, You can't point two speakers at your head and expect not to be fatigued. That is why i upgraded to immersive audio.

@kota1 all my speakers are pointed straight, not aimed at my head and they sound way better than all my friends Atmos systems. Atmos is an unnatural effect for a lot of types of music especially unamplified music.