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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
Technology
Jez Ford

Dolby Atmos music just went to another level, and I’ve never heard anything like it

Dolby Atmos music
Sound+Image mag review
(Image credit: Future)

This feature originally appeared in Sound+Image magazine, Australian sister publication to What Hi-Fi?. Click here for more information on Sound+Image, including digital editions and details on how you can subscribe.

Long before Apple brought spatial audio to the masses (and bless the company for it), in those forgotten days before anyone believed a surround effect could be convincingly delivered from a pair of stereo headphones (and shockingly there are still those who cling to this heretical notion), back before there were even agreed standards for surround sound in the movies, there was already multichannel music. 

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