The Computer Audiophile

Anyone seen these yet or used one? LNI-S - manual (PDF) DPS-2 - manual (PDF)

Another solid Atmos mix.

The band has been doing a media blitz with the release of this album. Yesterday I listened to this podcast with Stone and Jeff. Now I understand what the sound is at the beginning of the first track! I won't give it away, you'll have to listen :~) https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/broken-record/pearl-jams-stone-gossard-and-jeff-ament

The new David Gilmour album is available for pre-order on Blu-ray Disc, with both high resolution stereo and high resolution TrueHD Dolby Atmos. Really looking forward to this one. https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Blu-ray-Audio-David-Gilmour/dp/B0D26BMS34/

Just tested your track @kirkmc and it's 100% mono. My guess is that Dirac is on and it's makign changes. There's just no way for an audio device to know if it should mix to faux stereo for a mono track, but not a stereo track. Try playing this Roger Waters track. It should give you the QSound image that stretches from way beyond the left speaker to way beyond the right speaker. If your system is using DSP, the effect will be gone. https://music.apple.com/us/album/perfect-sense-pt-i/975952384?i=975952657

Hi @oneway23, thanks for the kind words. I so happy we both share a love of this album. Without great music, none of the other stuff even matters. I was just listening to this album in the car after morning drop off (school), and I'm still hearing more nuances and enjoying it more with every listen. The musicianship is so fantastic and the emotion this music pulls out of the listener is next level! With respect to the Atmos mix - I've seen a couple people say the same thing as you about the vocals, and I'm trying to wrap my head around it. On my system it seriously sounds flawless. Eddie's vocals aren't nearly as recessed as the original Vs. album, which had many record company execs up in arms. On Dark Matter in Atmos they are perfect. When I heard this at the theater, the horn speakers made it sound like Eddie was singing through a traffic cone, and he was very audible. If we say that 100% would be vocals that are obnoxiously right in your face, and 0% would be vocals that are so distant as to be almost impossible to hear, I'd say the vocals on this album are about 50% to 45%. In terms of dynamics, the Atmos version has over double the dynamic range of the stereo version and it doesn't sound too compressed to me at all. This is art after all, and it isn't for everyone. I just wish you liked the Atmos version as much as I do, becuase it's a transcendent experience. Thanks for sharing your thoughts :~)

Can be tough to get support, and it’s never on the level of Aurender support. The two just have very different business models, neither right nor wrong.

I believe Dirac operates on all inputs.

Does your unit have Dirac and is it enabled in the BluOS module?

Or, send me a file and I’ll check it by inverting to show differences (if any).

This is really strange. Have you checked the rip, to make sure both L and R are identical (in Audacity or similar)?

I’ve never heard of this. How would it know the tracks are mono, presuming there are actually a left and right channel in the file, even if they contain the same information? Or, are you playing true mono with a single channel in the file, meant for a single speaker?

The new Joni Mitchell box has arrived and I'm really enjoying this one in Atmos.

R128?

The stereo version on the Blu-ray is identical to the high resolution download, and nearly identical to the CD, except the CD is 44.1.