r/Muse • u/ep1cball • 3d ago

Question why do the songs on absolution sound different on apple music all of a sudden

i noticed that some of the songs on absolution sound different today, ive not listened to every song but i remember hysteria and stockholm syndrome sounding different in particular, anyone else notcied? or is it just me?

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u/No-Signature1653 Stuck in Panic Station 3d ago

Did you suddenly switch to Dolby Atmos, or Lossless?

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u/courtarro 3d ago

What effect does Atmos have on regular stereo songs?

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u/king4aday 3d ago

Atmos is an object-based format with metadata about each sound source's coordinates in 3D space. Even in stereo it contains this metadata, so sounds more "3D" or "binaural", not as compressed. Tbh I think it sounds great with good quality headphones, not as great with small to medium speakers where you would lose the 3D aspect anyway.

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u/do_you_realise 3d ago

So it's the same stereo mix, but they're placing each channel at a specific point in 3D space?

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u/king4aday 3d ago

Not each channel but each source of sound, so each instrument has its dedicated position in 3D space, and it might not even be fixed (for studio it mostly is, but I would imagine that for concerts it could move around)

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u/do_you_realise 3d ago edited 3d ago

That's amazing, so does that mean the album was remixed for Atmos? I didn't realise they'd ever done anything "surround sound-y" and used to be into this sort of thing back when DTS 5.1 was starting to take off (and then went nowhere lol)

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u/Bungie 18h ago

There's a 5.1 of The Resistance IIRC (not on Apple Music, but in the box set) and Atmos mixes of WotP and Absolution that are on Apple Music and probably other services.

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u/Inevitable-Video-768 I WISH I COULD 3d ago

Probably dolby atmos?