Forget Apple's Spatial Audio playlists – listen to this one insteadWhen Apple launched Apple Music with Spatial Audio earlier this month it also released a number of new playlists that included songs that had been mixed with Dolby Atmos. But you shouldn't use them for your Spatial Audio initiation – use this playlist instead.
See, Apple seems to have listed every track that's been marked as supporting Spatial Audio and Dolby Atmos. The songs are broken down into genres, with each genre getting its own playlist. Rock, Country, Pop, it's all there. But some of it sounds bad. Like, really bad.
Bad enough to put you off Spatial Audio, bad.
The prevailing theory seems to be that some tracks just aren't suited to Spatial Audio for one reason or another. One of those reasons is the lack of a center channel when creating the mixes, causing some vocals to sound like they suffer from echo, or phasing as Jonathan Morrison puts it. But whatever the reason, you need a good collection of vetted songs if you're going to get the best out of Spatial Audio, at l...
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Forget Apple's Spatial Audio playlists – listen to this one instead
