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It’s basically cutting out the hardware and speakers bit and jumping straight to the ‘what your brain hears’ part. Just as we can tell where a sound is coming from in real life, so Dolby Atmos finely tunes sound with the same characteristics of tone to trick our ears and brains into perceiving a ‘direction’ element along with the sound itself.

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It’s a very subtle set of changes, but it's enough to imbue the sound with characteristics that the brain can recognise and pop into a full 3D perception map in the mind. The answer is because your ear – and we’re talking about the fleshy sticky-out thing on the side of your head here – gently changes and influences the tone of the sound as its waves make their way through its many grooves and furrows into your cochlea (the inside-your-head bit). Or if a car approaching is coming from ahead or behind. Have you ever considered how it’s possible to know if a sound is in front of or behind you despite only ever having a left and a right ear? You know when a plane is high above you. Here, complex algorithms are used to imbue each separate, distinct Atmos channel with all the characteristics of direction and height that were encoded into the multi-speaker feed. The clever bit is really in the far simpler and accessible world of ‘virtual’ Atmos and the business of playing back these multiple point sources on headphones. You ‘should’ hear a difference as – inevitably – the more you invest and the more trouble you go to, the more Atmos gets to stretch its legs and the better it sounds. From seven-speaker, two-sub, ceiling-mounted home cinema installs, to something as simple as a pair of earbuds. Far better to create a format that caters for any equipment. Yeeeesss… Y’see it all comes down to Dolby’s gradual, decades-long realisation that not everybody is willing to throw out their music collection and the equipment that plays it. How much you invest in new hardware to enjoy it is entirely up to you, but do know that even the most basic of headphones, mobile phones or even ‘mono’ desktop speakers such as Amazon’s Alexa will play Atmos and – if you’re listening closely – you should hear a difference.

And the good news is, if you’re a subscriber already, Dolby Atmos music has already been magically added at zero extra cost. Services such as Amazon Music and Apple Music are pushing Dolby Atmos encoded music hard right now as the next big thing. That is music that has been mixed specially to take advantage of Dolby Atmos, expanding the familiar two-speaker stereo mixes we all know and love into multi-speaker, multi-directional monsters that can – miraculously – be played on practically any piece of hardware.

What do I need to listen to music in Dolby Atmos?įirst you need a source of Dolby Atmos encoded music.

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Multiple speaker setups found favour in the cinema and subsequently the home cinema, recreating the sound of off-camera action zinging past the listener, thereby ‘immersing’ them more believably in the depiction on the flat screen in front of them.ĭolby Pro Logic begat Pro Logic II, went digital with Dolby Digital 5.1, then 7.1 and now hits a whole new level of fidelity in Atmos, which can be delivered via more channels, in more places and at greater quality than ever, to the extent that it’s debatable as to whether any audio application will ever need ‘more’ than Atmos. An audio engineer explains why Dolby Atmos Music is “definitely going to supersede stereo”Īnd – let’s be honest – to record companies and music publishers with a long-running reputation for reworking, repackaging and reselling you the music you already love, the sound of a new format requiring new purchases and subscriptions (and quite probably the purchase of new gear to play it) is pure music to their ears.

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