Dolby Atmos - The Future Of Recorded Music?

[@yochillsmith]

I fully agree with you. Feels more like a marketing campaign. I don’t see it taking over stereo anytime soon. This also bumps the cost up for consumers and engineers.

[@TheBunkhouseStudios]

I certainly think it's going to take a lot for it to become widely adopted and realistically I don't think it's going to happen. Will be interesting to see how it all plays out!

[@longwelsh]

The idea is that the signal can be decoded using DSP and HRTF to earbuds. If that's the case you can make an equal argument you can do a pretty good simulation with some nice headphones. I would rather buy some nice headphones than add a silly load of speakers around my studio.

[@TheBunkhouseStudios]

So far the general consensus that I've been getting is that it's difficult to get good results mixing in Atmos in headphones. It makes sense to me that the best mixing environment would be a full Atmos rig, but then that becomes a huge stumbling block for most engineers.

[@kadiummusic]

Absolutely NOT! Atmos is a dead parrot! Good riddance!

[@TheBunkhouseStudios]

I guess only time will tell!