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⛰🌲Randy Walters🌲⛰

A little cat-related news today …

Lola Falafel’s unquenchable urge to explore – and to perch on the highest possible place – has twice led her to jump on top of my upward-facing #Atmos speakers.

This, of course, is problematic. When she lands on the speaker cloth (a thin frame held on the speaker by magnets)

the cloth slides off, Lola slides off, and #Catastrophe ensues.

So I made protective covers for the two center Atmos speakers. (It really is excellent wire mesh!)

#cat#cats#caturday
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Pottery by Osa

I just wrote #Atmos climate & culture magazine asking them to join the Fediverse. I love the writing, photography and podcasts from this nonprofit media org. I subscribe to their newsletter, but it would be nice to have them in my feed, as well. The new podcast episode with #AdrienneMareeBrown on #transformation and accountability rooted in care challenged me and put me at peace.

atmos.earth/the-overview-biomi

#Climate#Culture#EmergentStrategy
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⛰🌲Randy Walters🌲⛰

1/3 I had a wonderful experience yesterday …

After a couple years of researching, planning, sacrificing, and assembling a 7.1.6 #DolbyAtmos system in my studio,

I used my main DAW (Digital Performer) to draft my #immersive music workflow on a quickly improvised piece.

Without prep, I played a 3-minute piano take in 5.1 surround, keeping the sloppy first pass. Then I added stereo pairs using the surround and #Atmos height channels.

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⛰🌲Randy Walters🌲⛰

I’m absolutely over the moon, having just discovered Ginger Audio’s SPHERE Immersive virtual monitor controller software.

It completely solves some intractable issues I’ve been having with my Atmos system, such as

• the inability to overcome Apple’s 7.1.4 speaker limit in Audio MIDI Setup

• problems with being able to route audio from my DAWs to the Atmos system

It also adds great features like bass management, and built-in Apple Spatial Audio rendering!

#Atmos#GingerAudio#SPHERE
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⛰🌲Randy Walters🌲⛰

At last, I’ve got all six Klipsch Dolby Atmos speakers sitting on top of the 7.1 system.

The first photo was taken from the back of the studio, standing up. It’s a little distorted, because it’s a panorama.

(if you’re viewing this on a phone, turn it sideways to landscape mode!)

The second photo is sitting near the sweet spot, facing the rear – and of course, Lola having a nap. (The grill cloths are on for this one.)

The amp is next!

#DolbyAtmos#Atmos#surround
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Pepijn Bruienne

If you're interested in #DolbyAudio upgrades of your favorite music(whether #Atmos or any of its other multichannel formats) these are probably two useful resources to track what’s available and/or what gets added:

spatialaudiodb.com
bendodson.com/projects/spatial

With the addition of #HDMI #passthrough in #macOS15 I’m finding renewed use for my surround receiver that started gathering dust in recent years. A sample recent submission was RTJ3: music.apple.com/us/album/run-t A classic that got an Atmos upgrade a few years ago (yes audiophiles, you can choose your preferred mix) is Kind of Blue: music.apple.com/us/album/kind-

Anyway it's interesting to compare traditional stereo and surround mixes. What other surround mixes are worth checking out?

spatialaudiodb.comThe Spatial Audio DatabaseEvery Dolby Atmos and Dolby Audio track on Apple Music
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faraiwe

FTR, #atmos is utter garbage.

No, I don't care that you got conned into buying $2k of a shitty, plasticky, disposable system that added two extra channels, without a decent return/benefit for it.

"Atmos" is just (tldr) bouncing sound from the ceiling to simulate sound coming from above. Unless you are listening to the system in a room within the very, very narrow specs of ceiling height, material, etc, you just wasted bandwidth, materials (plastic, wood, wires, etc), and my patience. Even when configured to optimal specs, atmos sounds like dogshit.

#SurroundSound rules: K.I.S.S.

Can't beat *wired* speakers, connected to a decent, simple amp, A/V receivers are ok, see rule about amplifier.
90% of everything works with 5.1;
No, none of the "newer" codecs are better than DTS HD Master or Dolby TrueHD;
No, two subwoofers are not necessarily better than one;
Bluetooth is utter shit;
HDMI ARC is shit, and HDMI after 1.3 is about the same.
Korean companies never made anything audio that sounded remotely good or was not disposable crap;
PMPO rating is a scam;
More wattage does NOT mean better sound;
Louder doesn't mean better;
Brand cables are a scam;
Looks of a speaker don't mean shit for the sound;
More expensive doesn't mean better.

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