But not all Dolby Atmos systems are created equal. Dolby Atmos is even built into some soundbars and TV speakers. Today, you can find Dolby Atmos (and DTS:X) processing in many different receivers and preamp/processors, at all different price points. Depending on the title and artistic intent, you can become a part of the music, with sounds and instruments all around and above you, or you can get a more realistic presentation of a live performance with an immersive reproduction of the acoustics of a concert hall.
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So now the music can surround you in much the same way a movie does.
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On streaming services like Apple Music, TIDAL and Amazon Music you can now stream a number of music titles in high quality with full Dolby Atmos encoding. More recently, Dolby Atmos has expanded beyond movies and TV series into music. A couple of HBO’s most popular series, “Westworld” and “Game of Thrones” are now both available on HBO Max in 4K HDR with Dolby Atmos surround. The format was originally reserved for blockbuster Hollywood movies but it expanded out to smaller films and even TV series. Streaming services like Netflix, Amazon, HBO Max, Apple TV+ and Disney+ began building up a library of Dolby Atmos titles. Blu-ray Discs started coming out with Dolby Atmos and DTS:X encoding. It would be nearly two years before the top A/V receiver makers – Denon, Marantz, Yamaha, Onkyo and Pioneer – would announce that their receivers would support Dolby Atmos at home. But when it first came out, Dolby Atmos was strictly a cinematic thing – you could only hear it in movie theaters, and usually only in premium showings.ĭolby Atmos expands upon a standard surround system with height speakers that extend the soundstage into the third dimension. This height element adds a level of realism to movies and music that you simply can’t get from a standard stereo system or traditional surround sound. No longer are sounds limited to coming from all around you, now they can come from above you as well – just like in real life. Immersive surround sound formats Dolby Atmos, DTS:X and Aura-3D differ from other surround sound formats in that they include a height element. It was an ear-opening experience and it ushered in the era of truly immersive surround sound. Helicopters flew directly overhead, bullets whizzed around in literally all directions and multitudes of modified monkeys made multi-dimensional mayhem on the streets of San Francisco. One of the first clips we heard was a scene from “Planet of the Apes” remixed in Dolby Atmos. The company had just announced the new surround sound format at CinemaCon and they invited a number of journalists to northern California to hear it in person.
It was at Dolby’s headquarters in San Francisco more than ten years ago.
I still remember my first time… hearing Dolby Atmos that is.
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