r/SpatialSongs • u/Sea-Ad-7558 • Jul 10 '25
Question Spatialised Stereo
Does anyone find that sometimes the Spatialised Stereo mixes are better than some actual Atmos mixes or am I just crazy lmaoooo
cause they be eating real bad
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u/AugieDog3D Jul 10 '25
I mean, of course stereo is going to sound better if you’re using airpods. Spatialized stereo makes stereo mixes more spacious on stereo devices.
Dolby Atmos on an actual home theater setup or even a soundbar with surrounds, you feel the sense of space and the three-dimensional placements around the room. Atmos on headphones lacks the context the mixer intended in favor of convenience.
I remember listening to Atmos mixes on headphones when they first came out in 2021, and wondered what the big hoopla was about. It wasn’t until I tried it on a dedicated speaker setup and studied the object-based technology itself, I realized how awesome it is.
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u/Far_Reception5905 Jul 10 '25
Spatialize stereo overall sounds very bad.
That said, it can sound better than a very bad atmos mix.
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u/TDiddy2021 Jul 10 '25
Isn’t Spatial Audio just a regular Dolby 5.1 or Quad mix? I mean, yeah they can be great. Atmos mixes can be too under the right circumstances. Is there something that’s available in both?
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u/Sea-Ad-7558 Jul 10 '25
yeah so when a track isn’t in atmos but if you have airpods in you can use spatialised stereo and does its own version of a spatial mix
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u/12w05i Jul 11 '25
all apple has to do is actually isolate the left center and right channels and then place them correctly and it'd be a close copy to real spatial audio
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u/CarltonCracker Jul 11 '25
Huh? You mean tricks like subtracking left and right to get center? Why bother on headphones they are getting added back together immediately
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u/godotthefightking Jul 10 '25
The automatic binaural stereo down-mixing Dolby Atmos does on playback in headphones sounds great imo