Listening to Binaural now on Apple music. All songs I'm seeing are in Atmos. It sounds amazing on my Airpods Pro 2. Damn, I remember listening to this CD with headphones back in the day thinking "This is amazing". This is a next level for sure.
I finally got around to listening to Binaural on my Atmos system and wow. It's everything I was hoping it would be and more. I usually jot down "demo" tracks when I come across them in my listening. These are tracks where the use of surround is so excellent that I would use them if I was demo'ing Atmos music to someone for the first time, etc. Many mixes don't have any. The ones that do might have one to three. Genuinely, I put like 5 or 6 tracks from Binaural on my Demo Tracks list. It's spectacular in Atmos. "Of The Girl" and "Nothing As It Seems" were everything I always dreamed they could be. But I was surprised at tracks like "Evacuation" and "Insignificance." Both of those tracks are incredible in surround. The whole album works so well. I cannot wait to listen more!
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I finally got around to listening to Binaural on my Atmos system and wow. It's everything I was hoping it would be and more. I usually jot down "demo" tracks when I come across them in my listening. These are tracks where the use of surround is so excellent that I would use them if I was demo'ing Atmos music to someone for the first time, etc. Many mixes don't have any. The ones that do might have one to three. Genuinely, I put like 5 or 6 tracks from Binaural on my Demo Tracks list. It's spectacular in Atmos. "Of The Girl" and "Nothing As It Seems" were everything I always dreamed they could be. But I was surprised at tracks like "Evacuation" and "Insignificance." Both of those tracks are incredible in surround. The whole album works so well. I cannot wait to listen more!
Just curious, do you have a full Atmos set up? My wife got me a bose smart sound bar , i know its not the full atmos experience but it’s much better then airpods.
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Full Atmos setup here - Denon X3800H, B&W 600 S2 AE Series towers for fronts, the centre speaker, and bookshelves as rears, Cambridge Audio Minx Min22’s as the overheads and an SVS SB-3000 Sub. Very happy with it.
So far have listened to Binaural, which is unreal, and Dark Matter, which is a bit of a mixing mess. First couple of songs seem to have volume issues, especially the end of Scared of Fear which loses volume at a weird point. Tried on two different players so isn’t that. Just seems a poor mix in Atmos - doesn’t happen with the LPCM version.
Will be trying Vitalogy tonight, looking forward to that
Very underrated but I'm hoping they release Backspacer on Dolby Atmos. Also it's the only Pearl Jam album that hasn't been released officially yet in 24Bit Flac-HD.
At this point, I think it's a given that all remaining studio albums will be released in Atmos. Maybe even Lost Dogs?
The only question is if they are going to wait until album anniversaries to release them on Blu-Ray, like Vitalogy and Binaural. I guess No Code and Avocado would be next (30 and 20 years, respectively) for next year. The way the Atmos No Code mix was talked about in the last newsletter regarding Present Tense (redux) could indicate it might be next. Or it might just be me getting my hopes up.
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Damn, I remember listening to this CD with headphones back in the day thinking "This is amazing". This is a next level for sure.
Cant believe how much fuller it sounds.
BERN, SWITZERLAND - 13 SEP 06 // PORTLAND - 26 SEP 09 // CHICAGO - 19 JUL 13 // PORTLAND - 29 NOV 13
CHICAGO - 20 AUG 16 // CHICAGO - 22 AUG 16 // PHOENIX - 09 MAY 22 // CHICAGO - 05 SEP 23 // CHICAGO - 07 SEP 23
BERN, SWITZERLAND - 13 SEP 06 // PORTLAND - 26 SEP 09 // CHICAGO - 19 JUL 13 // PORTLAND - 29 NOV 13
CHICAGO - 20 AUG 16 // CHICAGO - 22 AUG 16 // PHOENIX - 09 MAY 22 // CHICAGO - 05 SEP 23 // CHICAGO - 07 SEP 23
BERN, SWITZERLAND - 13 SEP 06 // PORTLAND - 26 SEP 09 // CHICAGO - 19 JUL 13 // PORTLAND - 29 NOV 13
CHICAGO - 20 AUG 16 // CHICAGO - 22 AUG 16 // PHOENIX - 09 MAY 22 // CHICAGO - 05 SEP 23 // CHICAGO - 07 SEP 23
BERN, SWITZERLAND - 13 SEP 06 // PORTLAND - 26 SEP 09 // CHICAGO - 19 JUL 13 // PORTLAND - 29 NOV 13
CHICAGO - 20 AUG 16 // CHICAGO - 22 AUG 16 // PHOENIX - 09 MAY 22 // CHICAGO - 05 SEP 23 // CHICAGO - 07 SEP 23