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I have to disagree that Atmos itself sucks. The problem is that for marketing reasons it was decided to put Atmos in situations that it should never be in. A so

I have to disagree that Atmos itself sucks. The problem is that for marketing reasons it was decided to put Atmos in situations that it should never be in. A soundbar cannot benefit from Atmos and it should have never been put there in the first place. I have a 5.1.2 setup that I setup myself, I did the optimizations (really just used the automated thing) and its great. I never have an issue with not hearing things. I have even seen arguments that if you only have a 5.1 (or 5.2) setup Atmos is worthless for you, but at least in that situation at worst you are just getting roughly the same output. Basically, if you don't have those extra speakers (or real surround sound) there was no reason that Atmos should have ever been marketed to you and it is doing everyone (including the spec) a disservice.

RetpolineDrama 3y ago
>A soundbar cannot benefit from Atmos and it should have never been put there in the first place. ATMOS is a new way of doing things, where the object's position is recored and your hardware can adapt to it based on its configuration. This is infinitely better than shipping stereo, 5.1, 7.1 etc hardcoded mixes and switching between them. Now you only need to ship ONE spatial track (ok, multiple because of things like TrueHD, but you only have one spatial variant per-quality-tier). ATMOS means you can have 1 set of media that scales from 1 to N speakers seamlessly.
- nerdjon 3y ago
  Theoretically yes that is true, however in practice it has been shown time and time again that if you have less than a 5.1.2 setup Atmos is at best worthless and not actually getting you a benefit and at worse giving you a negative experience due to loosing the ability to properly balance. Atmos was shoved into setups that it does not belong.