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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

 

kota1
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mahgister
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The quarrel between " 70 years old audiophile" as i am with my stereo and so called younger multichannel upmixer users is LUDICROUS...

Looks like those over the age of 70 could care less about Dolby Atmos and are using every excuse in the book to justify their very expensive awesome sounding 2 channel.

+1, and the anger that anyone else can enjoy something that is different than stereo (note, I didn’t say better than stereo, not going there).

Be it stereo or multichannel users , the only factor that matter NOW is : do you have the BACCH filters or not ? Because the only question that matter for 2 channel users and multichannels users is : Is your TIMBRE perception good in your system and how about spatial localisation ?

Two channels or more , the only thing that will improve sound experience to the TOP is the Choueiri invention ....Then why quarrelling ?

Psycho-acoustic is not a fad or a marketing ploy it is pure science...

 

 

Then stop arguing in completely outdate debate about 2 channels or more...

I cannot paste the whole page here read why :

https://www.theoretica.us/bacch-dsp/

I will not need more than my headphone if i bought BACCH filters ... HUGELY BETTER LOCALIZATION IN SPACE FOR STEREO USERS

Those with multichannels will enjoy it more...BETTER TIMBRE EXPERIENCE  FOR THEM WITH NO DEGRADATION ...

There is no quarrel , only ignorance as usual ... 😁😊

 

 

 

realgoodsound
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Have seen/heard it. Think "home theater" is possibly the worst idea since New Coke. Overblown bass; unnatural midrange (so you can hear the dialog over the explosions) and shrieky highs. No thanks. What I get via my stereo is just fine by me. My wife and I have quit going to theaters because the sound is so unrealistic and waaaay too loud, for the same reasons I note above. Particularly the theaters with Klipsch and JBL systems. Just my two cents . . . .

kota1 OP
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@mahgister 

You have been a great contributor to this topic, I think the 70 y/o in question have no actual value to add to the topic and just seem to rant a lot.

 

kota1 OP
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@realgoodsound 

I'm glad this thread inspired you enough to post your thoughts, thanks.

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