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I had DTS and Dolby receievers for about 15 years and no longer do, so I guess for me some of it just doesn't matter. We did surround with DVD + Blu-Ray for a

I had DTS and Dolby receievers for about 15 years and no longer do, so I guess for me some of it just doesn't matter. We did surround with DVD + Blu-Ray for a while and then kind of stopped caring about it. The thing I miss the most was I had a few DTS CDs that were amazing for surround sound music experience. I have yet to hear anything out of Apple's Spatial Audio that comes anywhere close to what those DTS CDs sounded like. But DTS CDs were so ridiculously rare it was pointless.. I only had 2. I have a DTS surround copy of "What's New" by Dave Brubeck and I had a DTS surround recording of Holst's "The Planets". And I only ever had one CD player that could decode them. The DTS receivers required a DTS aware CD player to decode it and send a DTS stream. They couldn't take a raw bitstream and figure out it was DTS.

gwbas1c 5y ago
If you rip them to wav/flac, Kodi will decode dts properly. I also believe ffmpeg will convert them to a proper 5.1 flac/wav.
kstrauser 5y ago
I was on the bus this week, listening to a podcast on my AirPods Pro in “transparent” mode. I switched to some music and flipped to noise canceling mode. I’d forgotten all about turning on spacial audio, but I’ve gotta say, it was magical. The entire world went silent, except for the music coming from my phone I was holding in front of me. Even when I turned my head, the sound was coming from the phone. I had to convince myself that I wasn’t being “that guy” and listening to music on speakers in public. The only giveaway was that the sound quality was too good for that. I’m won over. The listening experience was astonishingly good. IMO it’s not a replacement for a good surround setup in your own living room, can be mind blowing when out and about.
- greggsy 5y ago
  I had exactly the same experience and had to convince myself I was wearing headphones. This came at a time when I had no idea that the feature existed.
  - kstrauser 5y ago
    Wild, isn't it? I probably looked odd, moving my head around while giving my phone the side-eye.

gwbas1c 5y ago

If you rip them to wav/flac, Kodi will decode dts properly. I also believe ffmpeg will convert them to a proper 5.1 flac/wav.

kstrauser 5y ago

I was on the bus this week, listening to a podcast on my AirPods Pro in “transparent” mode. I switched to some music and flipped to noise canceling mode. I’d forgotten all about turning on spacial audio, but I’ve gotta say, it was magical. The entire world went silent, except for the music coming from my phone I was holding in front of me. Even when I turned my head, the sound was coming from the phone. I had to convince myself that I wasn’t being “that guy” and listening to music on speakers in public. The only giveaway was that the sound quality was too good for that. I’m won over. The listening experience was astonishingly good. IMO it’s not a replacement for a good surround setup in your own living room, can be mind blowing when out and about.

greggsy 5y ago
I had exactly the same experience and had to convince myself I was wearing headphones. This came at a time when I had no idea that the feature existed.
- kstrauser 5y ago
  Wild, isn't it? I probably looked odd, moving my head around while giving my phone the side-eye.