Do NOT Blow Your Entire Budget on Two Channel Audio
Yes, two channel audio is here, and is not going away. However, object based audio is delightful, widely available on Tidal and Apple Music, and should be in the listening room of every music lover on the planet, not just "audiophiles. If you plan to be a music fan a year from now start building your object based audio system today. You will need:
1) A receiver/processor capable of Dolby Atmos.
2) A subscription to Tidal or Apple music.
3) A Firestick, ATV, or Nvidia Shield.
4) A minimum of 7 timber matched speakers and a subwoofer.
Once you experienced stereo would you ever go back to only mono? No, you would build a system capable of either mono or stereo. Now that object based audio has arrived do the same thing. Build a system capable of mono, stereo, AND object based audio. When Elton John heard Rocket Man in an object based format for the first time why did he demand to convert his entire catalog to Atmos? If you don’t know, then you need to go listen to Rocket Man in a good Atmos setup ASAP.
So, take your budget, DIVERSIFY, and get a good Atmos capable receiver or processor. Object based audio is NOT last decades surround sound or home theater. It is for MUSIC first, if you need a recommendation on how to allocate your budget feel free to post a question. Most importantly, you don’t NEED two systems, one for music and one for movies. A good object based audio system can play two channel music just fine. A two channel system on the other hand can’t play object based audio without a proper processor or receiver.
Greg Penny talks mixing Rocket Man in Atmos.
https://youtu.be/ggzfcUKDqdo?feature=shared
My dedicated 2ch system in a dedicated room is 10x the cost of the 5.1 Again, exactly why I started this thread, a question of budget. For someone with a large collection of software like LP’s, CD’s, blurays or SACD’s your setup makes perfect sense. For someone who streams their content maybe allocate some budget to try object based audio in the 5.1 channel room by making it a 5.1.4 channel room with a firestick and a tidal subscription? |
Do you know where i can find a Dolby Atmos tube amp? :) If I had an unlimited budget and the appropriate space I would use tube based monoblocks for each channel....😎 One of our members does this in a SOA atmos system using these: https://allnicaudio.com/products-2/?ckattempt=2
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Shouting from the mountain top but no one is listening. 5.1 has given way to a sound bar. Atamos is to cumbersome for most. Have you heard atmos capable soundbars yet? They are an upgrade over the traditional one. If I lived in a condo and was on the fence about soundbars I would snap up this atmos capable system by sony for around $1K in a nanosecond: https://youtu.be/eHcjvdGbaa0?feature=shared
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