The next step definitely seems to be along the lines of object based placement audio, stuff like Dolby Atmos and Dolby 360⁰ and so on.
There's loads of it coming out on Tidal, I've not seen any physical Atmos or 360⁰ physical audio media yet but I would imagine it's not far off?
I've been listening to loads of it recently (you need eligble devices to enable it in Tidal). Some of the Atmos stuff sounds absolutely incredible.
Reginald Dwight - Rocketman
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?
Rush - Tom Sawyer
The Commodores - Brick House
Diplo - MMXX-IX
The Weekend - Too Late
James Brown - Super Bad Parts 1, 2 and 3 (Mono Version)
Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It (a different mix to the famous Slick Rick sampled version)
Guns n Roses - Welcome To The Jungle
Rush -Limelight
Sheku Kannah Mason - Scarborough Fair
Yello - Waba Duba
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op 14-1. Rêveries. Passions (Largo Allegro ed apassionato assai)
Just a handful of examples. The way they've been presented with the whole Atmos dimensional/object based thing just makes the music sound pretty much brand new. It's seriously impressive imho.
360⁰ doesn't seem anywhere near as impressive imho. With 360⁰ if it's something brand new and made specifically for the 360⁰ format, then it really does sound impressive. Live albums sound alright too for the most part. However when older music is given the same treatment I think it sounds bloody awful.
With older music it feels like all they have done is separate every track on the board, add a bunch of reverb and call it a day. It just sounds so obvious and poorly done. Atmos music blitzes 360⁰ every time.
Give it a try if you can, it really does bring things up a level.
https://professional.dolby.com/product/tidal/This is all I could find on Atmos audio discs by the way. Has anyone seen more? (Sorry to derail the thread).
https://www.whathifi.com/news/dolby-rev ... disc-atmos