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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
Technology
Becky Roberts

I swapped my music listening from stereo to spatial for a week – here are 5 things I learned

Music Unlimited subscribers can now stream music in spatial audio.

Recently I spent hours and hours curating a list of, in my opinion, the best Dolby Atmos Music tracks – the spatial audio songs I've heard and most admired in the three (and counting) years they have been available on streaming services.

The immersive audio technology's application in music has been welcomed much more tepidly than in the movie environment it was initially created for, but one thing's for sure: it won't be departing the industry anytime soon. Even if Spotify doesn't support spatial audio streams like The Other services do, tech giants Apple, Sonos and Bose are backing it in both their soft and hard wares, mostly recently in the just-announced Sonos Ace headphones. The biggest music labels are onboard, of course, alongside more than a few prestigious producers and engineers.

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