Hey, so I have a 5.1 system ran via a MiniDSP Flex HT processor, and I've been getting frustrated by the LFE channel in Atmos songs seemingly being out of phase at certain bass frequencies.

I made a post about this before but I didn't go very in depth, and just decided it was best to disable the LFE and just listen to the bass in the main channels, which 99% of the time matches that of the stereo mix, with expected bass balance from low to high.

See here regarding 2nd pic: https://www.reddit.com/r/DolbyAtmosContent/comments/1w7fqge/the_lfe_is_out_of_phase_and_causing_cancellation/

However I've been experimenting with turning the LFE back on, as it does just feel wrong potentially missing out on creative intent, and almost just out of principle because it should be working, and many people don't even have the option to disable the LFE on lower end processors.

The thing is that is this problem occurs *so often*, in both Western Pop and Korean pop content, by different immersive mixers.

Although it's certainly possible, I really hope that it's not the case that so many mixers in multi-million studios labels etc (Many which are visited by and certified by Dolby) are screwing up the LFE phase relationship, and that there's instead something strange instead going on at my end I've been missing.

Now, when I measure with timing reference my LFE and bass managed L R or C channel, then use the alignment tool, they pretty much sum up perfectly (certainly at low frequencies, which is where I'm experiencing the cancellation). So again it would seem that the problem is the content, not my end, but still I have to get to the bottom of this with certainty for my own sanity.

From what I understand, REW uses a fixed channel order regardless of outputting via USB or HDMI, but I may as well test with HDMI audio instead of USB which is what I normally do.

So I've been thinking of every possible combination I can test to ensure things are working as they should:

1. Bass Management with LPF and HPF, with LFE with LPF (as is currently the case, and the recommendation from MiniDSP in their guide)
2. Bass management with LPF and HPF, LFE without LPF
3. Bass management with LPF and HPF, inverted LFE
4. No bass management, full range signal + LFE
5. No bass management, full range signal + inverted LFE
6. Bass management with HPF done in the speaker EQ instead of bass management channel
7. Disabling all processing possible and recording the channels into my PC via a focusrite interface and comparing the phase in a DAW

I am also planning on checking not just the loads of songs I know have problems, but also some films, which perhaps have less likelihood of the LFE being badly mixed? (No guarantee though)

For example this moment in Dune https://youtu.be/26bgYpJOqcw?t=476 where there is a simple bass sweep down to ~25hz with little harmonics or other noises, which is in the 2.0, but presumably also in the LFE as well, could hopefully be easy to compare.

However I know there's some folks here with access to actual production and viewer software, and if they'd be able to extract or record files and see how the LFE on the summing is on at raw digital level is without any of the extra stages in the way, that would be super appreciated. Or just any advice on other things I can check and may have missed, thank you!

While I'm building the full Dolby Atmos movies library, the movies ranking just passed 100 ratings. Current top 20, scored only on the Atmos mix:

If you can't find a movie you watched you can easily add it in a few taps.

https://helloatmos.app/ranking/movies

Not affiliated with the developer in any way, just happy it fixed my problem. Also, it's not related to Dolby Atmos, but it was bugging me for a long time...

The problem: on a Mac, Apple Music never changes the output sample rate. My FiiO K11 over USB-C sat at whatever I'd set in Audio MIDI Setup, meaning Hi-Res tracks got quietly resampled. The only workaround was changing it by hand for every song.

I used LosslessSwitcher, but for me it kept cutting songs off or quitting when the track changed. So I went looking for something more legit and found a lot of free GitHub projects:

• LosslessSwitcher: the original, 2k stars. Last release March 2026, 73 open issues, needs an admin account
• SyncHz: not notarized, and you need to clear the quarantine flag in Terminal to open it
• Nativerate: started Sep 2026, not notarized
• MusicRateSwitcher: started Aug 2026, Terminal command to open
• LosslessMusic: started Oct 2026
• Seamless Rate Switcher: started Oct 2026
• TrueRate: no release, you need to build in Xcode

Some of these might be great, but most are a few weeks old, and not notarized: Apple never scanned them for malware. On the Mac App Store there are a few, but only two that follow Apple Music track by track:

I picked Audio Freezer simply because I could try it before paying, and it's working great for my use case. On a track change it pauses for a moment while the DAC re-locks, so nothing starts cut off. The UI is very clean for me.

And my K11's LED logo now changes color when the sample rate changes, which is way more satisfying than it should be.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/audio-freezer-dac-sample-rate/id6790841679

If anyone has tried MyAudioFormat's auto mode, I'd love to know if it switches cleanly before someone pays to find out.

147 new Atmos releases: 72 albums and EPs (13 of them EPs) plus 75 singles.

Classical 24 · Rock 8 · Electronic 7 · Pop 6 · Jazz 4 · K-Pop 4 · Latin 4 · R&B/Soul 4 · +6 more genres

Top 5 released October 19–25

1. The Doors – Unbound and Dangerous (Live)
2. Rock
3. Apple Music · Tidal
4. John Legend – Muse
5. R&B/Soul · mixed by John Hanes
6. Apple Music · Tidal
7. Swedish House Mafia – Head Trip (DJ Mix)
8. Electronic
9. Apple Music
10. De La Soul – Stakes Is High (30th Anniversary)
11. Hip-Hop/Rap
12. Tidal
13. LISA – PRESS PLAY
14. Pop
15. Apple Music · Tidal

→ All 147 releases from week 43

Coming October 26 – November 1

1. Queen – Queen Budapest (Live)
2. Rock
3. Apple Music
4. JENNIE – Fallen Angel (Digital EP)
5. Pop · mixed by John Hanes
6. Tidal
7. Queens of the Stone Age – Perfecth
8. Rock
9. Apple Music
10. horsegiirL – HARDCORE HEALING - EP
11. Electronic
12. Apple Music
13. Jonah Kagen – Eternity of Anything
14. Rock
15. Apple Music

→ Everything coming next week

Cider is showing only stereo options for me in steamos

Hi, I am a lover of albums, when I use streaming services any time that I discover a track I like, I immediately select "go to album", and add the album to my library. I decided to try Hello Atmos and linked it to my Tidal account, when I ran it, it came back with a report that showed it had found more than 1500 tracks and it was offering to put them in a playlist if I bought the full on version.

I am not interested in individual tracks, I'm not interested in having new playlists... what I'd like is for Hello Atmos to populate my library with Atmos versions of albums.

Before I consider paying anything can someone tell me if it support that feature.

Thanks

Some numbers from the Top 100 Dolby Atmos Movies ranking on Hello Atmos, June to October 2026. 10,480 people opened it, 40% expanded at least one movie to see where it streams in Atmos in their country.

Here is where people actually went:

On a page built around streaming availability, two out of three people wanted the disc.

Ranking with per-country streaming info: https://helloatmos.app/ranking/movies/consensus

Quick data post. I compared three things: what gets released in Atmos, which albums people actually rate, and which genre filters people use when browsing.

(For anyone new here: the ratings and browsing numbers come from Hello Atmos, the Dolby Atmos music database I run. The catalog covers every Atmos release on Apple Music and Tidal, 129k and counting, and the ratings are from its users.)

Data as of October 2026. Ratings column is album ratings only, track ratings are not included. Genre filter use is from the last 4 months.

Browse by genre here: https://helloatmos.app/library

Does anyone have song recommendations that essentially begin as a 2.0 ch song that then expands/explodes into a full Atmos song?

72 fresh Atmos albums & EPs dropped on Apple Music and Tidal. Newest first.

Week 42 — October 12 → 18, 2026 (72 releases)

Browse the full Atmos catalog at https://helloatmos.app/releases

I looked at every search in the Hello Atmos library that returned nothing over the last 4 months, took the most repeated artists and checked each one against the full Apple Music and Tidal catalogs (every release, not just the ones Hello Atmos tracks).

11 of them have no Atmos album at all. Not a gap in the database, they simply don't exist in Atmos anywhere:

Check out the Hello Atmos Library

Over the past months I put together a few data-driven Atmos rankings, pulled from Reddit threads, YouTube reviews and AV publications: the 100 Best Dolby Atmos Movies, the 100 Best Dolby Atmos Demo Scenes and the 50 Best Dolby Atmos TV Shows.

On the music side you have already done the real work: over 5,000 album and track ratings now drive the Top Rated Atmos Albums and Tracks. Movies had no such place, until now.

Top Rated Atmos Movies, ranked by you: https://helloatmos.app/ranking/movies/

• Rate any film on three things: immersion, spatial creativity, mix quality
• 300+ films verified against disc and streaming releases to start
• Missing a film? Add it from TMDB in a few taps. Spotted one that is not actually Atmos? Report it

Every rating re-ranks the list. If you disagree with the current order, the fix is one rating away.

How additions stay honest: a film you add goes live right away with an "Atmos unverified" tag until I check it against disc and streaming releases. If three people report that it has no Atmos mix, it drops out of the ranking until it is verified or excluded.

Please, share your feedback and raise any issues here, all are very welcome.

I just want to find a song that has VERY obvious spatial panning. Any suggestions? Experimental songs are welcome too!

Next milestone. The Hello Atmos library just passed 135k Dolby Atmos albums on Apple Music and Tidal.

The full story so far:

• January 24, 2026 → 1.4k+
• January 30, 2026 → 25k+
• February 4, 2026 → 80k+
• February 10, 2026 → 104k+
• June 2026 → 120k+
• July 2026 → 125k+
• Today → 135k+

The catch-up phase is over. What comes in now is almost entirely new releases, roughly 1,000 to 2,000 a month, which is a decent proxy for how much Atmos content the industry actually ships.

Links:

• 135k Atmos Albums Library: https://helloatmos.app/library/
• Top Rated Atmos Albums: https://helloatmos.app/ranking/community
• Top Rated Atmos Tracks: https://helloatmos.app/ranking/community-tracks

In Dolby Atmos. Old-school techno on real analog synths and vintage machines. Stereo mix by Joachim Garraud; Dolby Atmos immersive mix by Franck Martin. The official YouTube video uses an Eclipsa Audio Mix.

We have 2,500+ album ratings on Hello Atmos (March to October 2026, 3 dimensions: immersion, spatial creativity, sonic quality). I pulled everything with Steven Wilson's name on it.

As an artist:

• 45 ratings, average 9.76 out of 10. Site average is 8.55.
• The Overview (9.80) and The Harmony Codex (9.70) are the #1 and #2 highest-rated albums on the entire site, 20 ratings each.

As a mix engineer:

• 133 ratings, average 9.28. The most-rated engineer in the database, nobody else is close (Nick Rives is second with 61).
• 4 of the 20 highest-rated albums on the site are his remixes: Welcome To The Pleasuredome (9.58), Made in Japan (9.46), The Tipping Point (9.40), and Chicago II.
• He's the #2 most-used engineer filter in our library (after Stan Kybert).

I just found this email in my spam folder so I'm obviously a few weeks late. Does anyone know if this is going to come back or if this was just a one-time offer?

Hello,

Modern tools like AI may be controversial, but in the case of this album Rubber Soul, it’s a production tool that will simply make it possible to separate the instruments and vocals, it has the ability to perfectly separate the vocals and instruments to provide separate audio tracks, allowing the sound engineer to remix as if he had multitrack tapes with each vocal and instrument on a dedicated track. This is a technique that has already been used for other Beatles songs.
Based on these elements, two mixes were created: a stereo version and a Dolby Atmos version.

The graph below compares the spectrum of the Mix – 2026 (white curve) with the spectrum of the Remastered – 2009 (blue curve).The curves of the two spectra are very similar from 300 Hz to 20 kHz. Between 150 Hz and 400 Hz (white area), the 2006 remastered version has a higher level (up to 5 dB). Below 100 Hz, the 2026 remixed version has a higher bass level, with a difference of up to 10 dB.
These changes below 400 Hz will alter the perception of the bass between the two versions, with the 2026 mix offering a more modern low frequency balance.

The stereo 2026’s mix

Using AI that allows us to separate vocals and instruments. We use AI as a demixing tool, not to generate new sounds. It s possible to remix a track as if we had a multitrack recording with the vocals and instruments separated (a technique that wasn’t available when the album was made).
The new mix follows current mixing conventions for this type of music. Consequently, the vocals are centered rather than on the right, with the backing vocals behind the lead vocals and positioned on the left.
However, the placement of certain instruments has been retained to stay true to the spirit of the original mix.
It s a resounding success that allows listeners to rediscover the album with a cleaner, more detailed sound, a realistic soundstage that perfectly highlights the vocals, and a boosted bass level to provide better bass balance while preserving the Beatles signature sound.

The Dolby Atmos 2026’s mix

The first thing that struck me when listening to the Dolby Atmos version was the precision and detail of the vocals and instruments.
In fact, I listened to the original mix, then the new stereo mix, which offers an improvement in terms of the coherence of the soundstage.
And when I switched to Atmos, I wondered how it would sound. The Atmos mix expands the soundstage, but it wasn’t the spatialization that impressed me the most, because, although it s more pronounced than in stereo, it’s still relatively restrained for Atmos, it was above all the precision of the instruments and vocals, that ability to distinguish everything as if the instruments and singers were right in front of us. There are also occasional instruments placed in the surround channels or overhead, but fortunately, this is only sporadic, and I don’t think it was necessary on this album.
Following U2 (link)’s use of Dolby Atmos mixing to immerse us differently in a track depending on its sections, the mix on this album perfectly highlights all the instruments and vocals, resulting in a sound that’s even more precise and detailed than the new stereo mix.
These two albums clearly demonstrate the evolution of Dolby Atmos mixing, whether to enhance the musical experience or to bring out every detail of an album.

Find all the analyses and measurements of each versions here (link).

And the video of the 3D immersive sound on Youtube.

Enjoy listening,
Jean-François

Other reviews of The Beatles :

The Beatles – Now and Then – The last Beatles song, finalized using AI – Review (Test: maxi vinyl record, blue single vinyl record, Tidal MAX Flac, Amazon UltraHD Stereo 24/96, Dolby Atmos)

THE BEATLES: the 1962-1966 (The Red Album) – Review – (Test: CD 1993, CD 2010, Tidal MAX FLAC 24/96 2023 and Tidal Dolby Atmos 2023)

The Beatles: 1967-1970 (The Blue Album) – Review – (Test: CD 1993, CD 2010, Tidal MAX FLAC 24/96 2023 and Tidal Dolby Atmos 2023)

52 fresh Atmos albums & EPs dropped on Apple Music and Tidal. Newest first.

Week 41 — October 5 → 11, 2026 (52 releases)

Browse the full Atmos catalog at https://helloatmos.app/releases/2026-w41/

I Got A Denon Avc X3700H Powering 2 x JBL A100P Subwoofers , A120 Bookshelf Speakers, A135C Center Channel, Klipsch Surround R14S Speakers And 4x JBL Arena 6ic Ceiling Speakers And Front Tower Speakers JBL A170 Powered Through Marantz 7025 2 Channel Amp

72 fresh Atmos albums & EPs dropped on Apple Music and Tidal. Newest first.

Week 40 — September 28 → October 4, 2026 (72 releases)

Browse the full Atmos catalog at https://helloatmos.app/releases/2026-w40/