![]() ![]() Is This Just Another Scam to Make Me Buy the Beatles’ White Album Again? Dolby Atmos can breathe new life into old recordings, making your favorite tunes even more enjoyable. Artists, producers and recording engineers are going back to original master tapes and remixing recent and classic studio recordings to take advantage of the new multidimensional capabilities of the format. You can hear Dolby Atmos music mixes today not just on big budget new releases from major artists but also in back catalog releases, even as far back as albums from the 1940s and 1950s. More recently, Dolby Atmos has found favor in the music industry. Now you can find Dolby Atmos sound in hundreds of movies and TV shows so you can enjoy that 3D immersive surround sound experience at home. And not long after that, Dolby Atmos processing started appearing in soundbars as well.Īs the content library grew, the format also found purchase in the most popular video streaming services such as Netflix, VUDU, HBO Max, Disney+, Amazon Prime and Apple TV+. It didn’t take long before the format made it to the home in A/V receivers, A/V processors and speakers. Whatever the DAC/amplifier/speaker configuration, lossless audio streaming arriving on the Apple TV is a big deal.Dolby Atmos – the leading immersive surround sound format – debuted in movie theaters back in 2012 with Disney/Pixar’s “Brave.” Atmos was the first object-based sound format to include height speakers in the mix so the sound comes from not just all around, but above you as well. ![]() It’s in cabling scenarios like this that I’m thankful that KEF optioned TOSLINK over coaxial for their LS50 Wireless loudspeakers. ![]() Otherwise, a pair of digitally active loudspeakers could prove equally as effective in getting the best from Tidal’s Hifi tier. With the TV acting as a DDC, D/A conversion can come from any TOSLINK capable DAC.Īs we saw in its recent review, AudioQuest’s TOSLINK-equipped Beetle DAC can be tucked away out of sight on the back of the TV panel. Tidal’s native Apple TV app has been optimised for the big/ger screen making it more suitable than a smartphone or laptop for diving into Tidal’s130,000 ad-free hi-definition (music) videos and concerts where the sound and picture quality are almost certain to best those found on YouTube.Īudio-centric listeners preferring a good two-channel amplifier to a home theatre receiver but bemoaning the lack of TOSLINK output on the latest generation of Apple TVs should consider the following signal path: take the Apple TV’s HDMI output into the TV and extract digital audio data from the TV via its own TOSLINK output. Other territories are set to follow suit at as yet unspecified points in the future. UK- and USA-based Apple TV owners can now find the Tidal app in the tvOS app store. And yes, this includes the audiophile-friendly Hifi tier that otherwise goes for US$19.99/month.įurthermore, Tidal has at long last arrived to the Apple TV platform (and Android TV). ![]() No credit card is required so there’s nothing to cancel afterwards. Perhaps in an attempt to net new subscribers, Tidal is opening up their streaming service to anyone and everyone for freefrom Christmas Day for twelve days. We only have to look back to July to remind ourselves of how Soundcloud only had 50 days left on the clock but was saved by an overnight 40% cut to its staff numbers and an emergency round of funding (which also saw its CEO and co-founder Alex Jung step aside).Īs long as music streaming remains a precarious business it will continue to provide editors with alarmist headlines about ongoing financial losses and imminent platform closures. Tidal may or may not be doing it tough on cashflow – we can’t possibly know for sure – but it’s certainly doing the hard yards in the mainstream press where many publications are riffing on a report by Norway’s Dagens Næringsliv that the Jay-Z-owned streaming service has six months left to live. ![]()
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