Is Apples Spatial Audio a fail.

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

Does Lossless CD quality sound different from standard streaming?

Apple Senior VP doesn't think so. Eddy Cue is Apple’s senior vice president of services and the person who oversees Apple Music.

“The reality of lossless is: if you take 100 people and you take a stereo song in lossless and you take a song that’s been in Apple Music that’s compressed, I don’t know if it’s 99 or 98 can’t tell the difference.”

“You can tell somebody, ‘Oh, you’re listening to a lossless [song],’ and they tell you, ‘Oh, wow. That sounds incredible.’ They’re just saying it because you told them it’s lossless and it sounds like the right thing to say, but you just can’t tell.” 

Basically Apple thinks we can feed them dog food and say it's steak and people will believe it. Seems on brand for any tech company. 

And this is the problem with Spatial Audio in quotes which he seems to think is a benefit. 

“This requires somebody who’s a sound engineer, and the artist to sit back and listen, and really make the right calls and what the right things to do are,” Cue told Billboard about mixing for spatial audio. “It’s a process that takes time, but it’s worth it.”

It's the work of some sound engineer reworking a song that you already love. In other words it's not what Gaga, Beyonce, Rihanna etc, intended for you to hear. 

That's why there is so much difference of opinion on whether people like the Chromatica album in "Spatial Audio." It's a sound engineers remix. 

 

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2021/6/9/22525028/apple-music-spatial-audio-dolby-atmos-hands-on

 

[littlepotter 76,612]

I listened to one of those and they sounded so inferior to the lossless tracks i have on my phone

[gag 22,449]

5 minutes ago, JusKeepBreathin said:

“If you take 100 people and you take a stereo song in lossless and you take a song that’s been in Apple Music that’s compressed, I don’t know if it’s 99 or 98 can’t tell the difference.”

Her impact

[salty like sodium 2,262]

 

9 minutes ago, JusKeepBreathin said:

“This requires somebody who’s a sound engineer, and the artist to sit back and listen, and really make the right calls and what the right things to do are,"

It says "the artist" here ... So doesn't that contradict your statement ?

  

9 minutes ago, JusKeepBreathin said:

In other words it's not what Gaga, Beyonce, Rihanna etc, intended for you to hear.

 

Also, artists like Taylor Swift have been promoting the Dolby Atmos version of their songs. Would they be doing that if they didn't approve of the final mix ?

[Mindblown 6,746]

I prefer Dolby Atmos versions, they're a lot cooler to listen to. 

[Gagaloo911 12,959]

All those stupid people acting all superior with their Apple Music are shaking 

[Guest SetMeFree]

if you do not have the proper (expensive) equipment to utilize it, then yes.

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

11 minutes ago, gag said:

Her impact

Yasss. When I read it I thought the same thing. 

[HausOfAntonio 8,021]

Idk I’m just enjoying listening to new parts of songs I’m really familiar with in the jew mixes, I don’t really care if they’re what Gaga intended or not  Its not like OG Chromatica vanished, anyway. 

[INNA 3,788]

It’s definitely a niche thing that most people aren’t going to want to fool with. But there are also many audiophiles out there so it’s a huge success IMO, making it more mainstream accessible. 

[StarstruckIllusion 53,565]

Idk about a complete fail but they absolutely ****ed up Chromatica 

[OBEY 57,109]

Lossless =/ Spatial Audio though...