I think Dolby Atmos has great potential. But for it to really work the artist and the studio has to put time and effort into it making sense. And I'm doubtful this will be the case in the long run unless Dolby Atmos and Spatial Audio become the norm in the industry as a whole. Why would artists...

With iOS 15 Developer BETA1 I also have the option to simulate Dolby Atmos / Spatial Audio on things that are not Dolby Atmos. Even this works surprisingly well for music but makes all other kind of content horrendous. Podcasts and pretty much any kind of spoken word will have way too much...

Some producers have done crap all with their Dolby Atmos releases. Listening to Linken Park and their Dolby Atmos tracks is just sad. In the End from Linken Park is simply worse in Dolby Atmos compared to regular stereo. Sounds like they simply tossed their original stereo track into a Dolby...

Not really. You can enforce «Spatial Audio» on non-supported tracks and that becomes simple Dolby Atmos virtualisation/mixing. But the tracks being labelled as Dolby Atmos are new releases of the songs coming from new masters where the studio has mastered them with Dolby Atmos in mind. This...

The AirPods Max is digital-only and I suspect that is for a very good reason. They won't sound any good without the computational audio/DSP. They have clearly been designed and tuned around this very active and high-tech DSP. Remove the DPS and they won't be any good at all is what I suspect...

It does look strange. But I think this is simply Apple going after Tidal HiFi, Amazon HD, Qobuz etc customers. Apple isn't a company that tends to believe in "snake oil" and going 24-bit/192kHz for audio doesn't really make much sense from a technical (or a physiological) standpoint. To me...

Sounds just like what I would expect music to sound like when you have up to 128-channels that can be utilised in a 360-degree sphere around you. The key to Dolby Atmos sound great for music will be the production actually recording and mastering it using additional channels in a meaningful way...

Hardly a surprise to anyone who knows how audio stream works. The chain goes from digital-to-analogue, analogue-to-digital, digital-to-analogue when using the minijack to lightning cable connected to the AirPods Max. The AirPods Max have digital inputs only. When you are using minijack which is...

I love good sound. I'm not an audiophile but I have some half-decent setups with my Shure SE846, my Hegel HD12 DAC+Schiit Magnius running fully balanced using a balanced cable to my Sennheiser HD800S and whatnot. But I have such a hard time believing people can actually tell the difference...

I can't say anything when it comes to the B&O BeoPlay H95's. I did, however, own the B&O BeoPlay H7 Gen.1, H8 Gen.1, H9. Gen1 and H9i. Out of all of these I enjoyed the H7 the most as the had a wider soundstage compared to the rest. I didn't enjoy the H8 at all because of the on-ear design but I...

One thing I really like with the AirPods Max that the Bose NC 700 and Sony WH-1000XM3 and WH-1000XM4 seems to lack entirely is the capability of using transparency mode while also using the headphones. If I remember this correctly (I don't have any of the Sony's myself anymore so correct me if...

I'm mixed. I feel the default profile starts to loosen up and shine at around 45-50% volume. At lower volumes I find balanced + slight or even moderate to sound better. When going past 60% volume I start to feel like I prefer the default over the balanced + slight/moderate due to the sibilance...

Indeed, but I find the sound profile much better with it set to balanced + slight or medium compared to the default profile. No doubt about it in my mind. Separation and clarity is much better with them set to balanced compared to having them on default. Disabling the tuning and I find vocals to...

Hmm.. These settings are acutally sticking for all my AirPods. I have already set my AirPods Pro to balanced + slight and this has been automatically set on my AirPods Max as well. No wonder why I can't fully understand why many reviews seem to claim that they sound darker compared to my own...

I have no clue who this booredatwork guy is but this sounds very strange to me. The Sony WH-1000XM4 isn't wide and spacious at all. Which is pretty much confirmed by in-depth reviews by the likes of rtings.com. So having him talk about the WH-1000XM4 as they don't feature v-shaped, narrow and...