That’s the thing. There have been Atmos releases where there was no access to the original recordings, only the stereo mix. Fake surround-sound was then created

That’s the thing. There have been Atmos releases where there was no access to the original recordings, only the stereo mix. Fake surround-sound was then created without consumers being aware of this. This was reported by a poster on the ILM message board[0]: > OK, so I had a conversation today with producer John Snyder (worked with Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor, did tons of archival jazz stuff for decades, blah blah blah) and he was telling me about how some Atmos "conversions" are being done and this is some snake-oil bullshit. In a lot of cases, they're taking stereo masters (not even the original tapes, but the album masters), playing them back in the big room of a studio with microphones set up in three different positions relative to the speaker horns, and using those new recordings to build the Atmos "mixes". [0] https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=8579250&boardid=41&threadid=113888 https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?sh...