How To PROPERLY Listen To Dolby Atmos On Your Mac

[@ObservationAudio]

I've not found a Windows solution. I agree. It's critical that we're able to reference. I had to buy a pro-sumer Atmos receiver with XLR outputs and patchbay in all my monitors. It sounds amazing!

[@lucybunce-s9d]

You won’t remember me but back when I went to minorca you were there in that competition (the weird one) and you promoted your channel. Great content! :)

[@michaelhurwitz56]

Moving ahead full steam! Nice!

[@immersiveaudionft2203]

The Batman soundtrack has to be experienced. Solo speakers and you will hear why some mixes don't translate to headphone a bunch of junk in them. You also have to limit your output to your interface to 16.but this works great. just get a M-mac mini so much cheaper the decoders if you don't have something to start with. Movies work also.

[@paulovmendes]

For the moment Tidal doesn´t work straight on MAC OS as Apple Music, even if they´re also streaming in DD+JOC as Apple. You´ll need an Atmos receiver with outs patched to your interface. Really expensive, in particular the JBL Synthesis which has Dante.

[@SoundSleuth]

I have a Mac Studio M2 with a Focusrite Rednet and I can not for the life of me get this to work. If I come into the Rednet via my MacBook Pro on Dante setup as a 16 channel sound card, it does. But not the Mac Studio directly via Thunderbolt. I can also mix to 7.1.4 and play 12 channel wav files correctly in 7.1.4. Just not Atmos streaming from Apple nor any other platform.

[@paulovmendes]

Via Thunderbolt into what interface?

[@SoundSleuth]

@@paulovmendes Scarlett RedLine 16. Rumour has it if it has more than 16 channels Apple Music wont play atmos on it.

[@paulovmendes]

@@SoundSleuth You mean, Focusrite Red16 Line? There´s no Scarlett Redline 16. The 16 channel limitation is not a rumour, it´s a fact, although I don´t know the reason. If you have the Focusrite Red16 Line, you can install Dante Virtual Sound Card (DVS), set it´s matrix to 16x16 and feed the Dante card on the Focusrite. Then route the appropriate Dante channels to the analogue outs that feed your Atmos monitoring if it´s the case. Then on MAC sound settings, or Audio MIDI Setup, choose the Focusrite as sound output. Configure the speakers as James showed. It works. We have a Focusrite Red4 and that´s the way we do it to listen to Apple Music in Atmos. Except that in our case, we´re feeding the Dante outs from the Focusrite to our MTRX Dante card, because the RED4 only has 8 outs, and that´s not where our 7.1.4 monitoring chain is connected. Hope it helps get you sorted.

[@cloughri]

I also have a Redline 16 and the only way I can get it to play Atmos is to use Loopback. I create a 16 channel virtual pathway that routes to the Red. I configure that virtual path in Audio/Midi setup as described in this video. This “fools” the OS into playing the Atmos stream correctly.

[@SoundSleuth]

@@paulovmendes Yes, Focusrite Line 16 - Ooops. I can come into it using Dante from my MacBook Pro. It is not the optimal work flow I am trying to achieve.

[@alexandervaicahovsky7787]

Strange,but you don't mentioned very poor quality of A.Music playback even on lossless audio settings.And we already know about "bottleneck" of that problem - bluetooth audio bitrate ))

[@TSR-JiveyTalksTech]

@@alexandervaicahovsky7787 and there was me thinking I still thought CDs sounded good.

[@paulovmendes]

There´s is no blutooth involved here at all...

[@garethde-witt6433]

Why bother it’s crap

[@TSR-JiveyTalksTech]

Glad to see we are being so creative with our comments.