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Been wondering if there's a place I can listen to Spatial Audio versions of music. Does anyone know any places that support spatial audio playback?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Check out https://audiospace.soundingfuture.com/ It's a new and experimental platform, but you'll get a taste of Spatial Audio.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Not sure is helpful, but albums made with Q-sound gives excellent (engineered) soundstage width. Try Roger Waters album Amused to Death, or other albums made with Q-sound.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What is spatial audio? U mean surround sound with a multi speaker setup? Or just properly utilized stereo audio?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Spatial Audio is one of the terms used for anything with height information: Binaural and Ambisonics (although these two don't always feature height), Dolby Atmos, Auro3D, MPEG-H or some experimental other formats.

Other terms that mean the same thing: 3D Audio, Immersive Audio, Surround+Height

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So your question is about a physical location that has the tech to play any of these the way they were intended to?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm not OP, just an expert on Spatial Audio.

Headphones are able to reproduce Spatial Audio mixes, if they've been binauralized, so the place and the system aren't too relevant (if OP already set up their playback system).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

So what is their question then? Did they mean "places" as in websites?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Considering the forum, I’d say so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I think so?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Tangential question for you then, assume the spatial audio is encoded using object based techniques (such as Dolby Atmos). Per my understanding, I need to then apply a HRTF to convert the object based audio to binaural audio for playback through headphones. So which programs do you recommended for that conversion? In Windows, Mac or Linux. Thanks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You can often find torrents around for sacd's or dvdaudio - but there isn't any good place as far as I know

Not to mention a LOT of surround music is mixed terribly, with the exception of a few individuals. Steven wilson does amazing surround mixes, and has remixed several commercial releases

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

The quadraphonic mix of Dark Side of the Moon is one of the best multichannel compositions in existence.

Problem isn't the MIX, but the way the musicians intended to display the composition. The quadraphonic mix of Black Sabbaths Paranoid album sucks big time (but is also funny as hell).

The new The Cure album is well done in Dolby Atmos, but not really my taste in music.