I'll add my +10 to @ditusa and +20!
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
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most people who keep plugging all this Atmos stuff have no idea what proper 2-channel audio sounds like Thanks for sharing, can you post your system and some pics in your profile so we can see your example? Floyd Toole (look him up) uses the same layout in his home that I have in mine (key point, the MLP is equidistant between front and rear channels)
Where Dr. Toole uses passive speakers I chose to go with active. Check out Abbey Road studios layout (key point, MLP again equidistant). I decided to go with the tall stands for the height channels too, active speakers are a bit heavy:
Finally the measurements of my front L and R speakers in my room, two channel sounds fine: |
That’s probably true. But it seems their interests are mostly in spectacular sound effects and the posting of charts and graphs and links to YT videos. Meanwhile the rest of us are listening to music. |
I already said that we dont need atmos with BACCH filters... I predicted this technology will disapear or stay marginal because we can create immersiveness and the illusion of many speakers with only two anyway ... The majority of music i listen to out of classical and jazz will stay recorded stereo forever anyway...Indian and persian music ...
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