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Dolby Atmos Remixes of all albums to be released

ChrisC said:
Just stopped by to say I finally got a hold of Bad in Dolby Atmos.

After some tinkering I managed to get my AV receiver to accept it as multi-channel audio. I fired up the album, cranked the volume and I was stunned.

This is a completely new experience, and for the first four tracks or so I found the hairs standing on end on my arms and an inability to stop grinning from ear to ear. I know this album intimately, I know it like the back of my hand, and I have never heard it sound quite like this. The depth and the vast sound field these new mixes create is absolutely stunning. Hearing Michael's voice right in front of you in that centre channel with various elements behind and all around you is just incredible.

I've been reading a fair bit of criticism in this thread over the past few weeks of missing elements and changes to Michael's original work and I have to say I do not share these. These new mixes remain almost completely faithful to Michael's original recordings. Given the differences in set up people will have to listen to them on, and people's ears picking up things, it is perhaps understandable that there has been a mixed response. I did feel like perhaps some elements my ears were picking up too easily, and others that had been so clear before I was searching for - but despite these minor perception differences, I more than approve of these new mixes being appreciated alongside the original stereo mixes.

Just to point out a few things I noticed. Bad with his pulsing rhythm all around you was absolutely gorgeous. Speed Demon I felt might even have been improved in this form - the drum noise going harder than before and some vocal elements clearer. For some reason Michael's lead on APOM sounded slightly different to me but I couldn't put my finger on it, a minor degress less urgency to it somehow. The choir and Siedah are almost certainly too quiet on Man In The Mirror - but Michael's lead sounds like he's standing right there in front of you singing it which takes your breath away. The horns and piano on MITM are also now more audible to me which is lovely. The base on just about everything is so present now and it just kills.

There are precious few moments in the post 2009 landscape I have been genuinely thrilled by, but this Atmos project is one.

I can't wait to hear the other three now, especially Dangerous.

And I urge everyone to ensure they're listening on a suitable audio set up, AND to make sure everything in your settings is set correctly (as I say, for me, it took a bit of tinkering to get my system to understand what I was asking it to play and output it correctly).
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No, Bad is the most faithful translation to Dolby Atmos. Off The Wall and Thriller are fine. Dangerous is just straight up messed up
 
Paul MCC said:
And what is the difference between Hybrid SACD and 180g 33RPM 2LP?

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One is a CD and the other one is a Vinyl
 
mjfp said:
No, Bad is the most faithful translation to Dolby Atmos. Off The Wall and Thriller are fine. Dangerous is just straight up messed up
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i tried to listen to remember the time with it on and i turned it off after like 30 sec cuz it sounded off to me
 
could it be that these Dolby Mixes are mainly for a real. 5.1 sound system and not for AirPods?
I don't get it.. Thriller sounds so good on AirPods.. the rest sounds so wrong...
 
kai said:
could it be that these Dolby Mixes are mainly for a real. 5.1 sound system and not for AirPods?
I don't get it.. Thriller sounds so good on AirPods.. the rest sounds so wrong...
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Yes, they are definitely made for real Dolby Atmos or 5.1 surround systems. AirPods or headphones in general will just give you a stereo downmix of the Dolby Atmos Remix. Listen to the original stereo mixes for that. I wouldn't call Thriller good on headphones either, it also has equalization problems in my opinion.

By the way, Apple only delivers E-AC3 JOC to you, not the original 7.1.4 + object metadata. It only delivers a 5.1 base with joint object metadata.
 
mjfp said:
Yes, they are definitely made for real Dolby Atmos or 5.1 surround systems. AirPods or headphones in general will just give you a stereo downmix of the Dolby Atmos Remix. Listen to the original stereo mixes for that. I wouldn't call Thriller good on headphones either, it also has equalization problems in my opinion.

By the way, Apple only delivers E-AC3 JOC to you, not the original 7.1.4 + object metadata. It only delivers a 5.1 base with joint object metadata.
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Thriller sounds totally good to me on AirPods with Atmos. I feel like i am part of the music... Bad and Dangerous sounds just shitty on airpods.
 
kai said:
Thriller sounds totally good to me on AirPods with Atmos. I feel like i am part of the music... Bad and Dangerous sounds just shitty on airpods.
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Apple also introduced an additional compressor when listening to Apple Music, which cannot be turned off, with it's iOS 26 update on iPhones. It isn't present on MacBook and iPad as far as I know. On my Atmos system, Bad is the most faithful translation to Dolby Atmos, followed by Thriller (different engineers), Off The Wall and Dangerous, which is completely messed up
 
MJJ Leaks said:
Can’t find the Bad atmos mix
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not available outside countries it was previously available in two months ago. The ones I know of are Germany, UK and the Netherlands. If anyone from other regions cannot view them as well, please reply to this post with your country
 
kai said:
Thriller sounds totally good to me on AirPods with Atmos. I feel like i am part of the music... Bad and Dangerous sounds just shitty on airpods.
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Haven't listened to Bad yet but Dangerous sounds like they've never listened to the album before and just experimented with what was given to them. Some of the plug ins they used sound so different to the original effects that were used for the album and they seem to not understand which elements are supposed to be on the foreground or background. There's also lots of unused elements that made their way into these so it's really weird.
Some songs sound like pranks as well, like they're making it bad on purpose? Making it's like a private joke between sound engineers or something 🤷

Thriller was great though, is it the same sound engineers that did Thriller a couple years ago that are now handling whatever this is ?
 
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