
The $450 Vizio M512a-H6 is an upcoming Dolby Atmos soundbar. Ceiling speakers are great, but many companies sell upward-firing speakers that will come close in performance without the need for speaker mounting or installation.The best sound will be with a multispeaker setup, but even soundbars with Atmos (like the Vizio SB36512) offer a much "bigger" and more enveloping soundstage than stereo bars.Height channels can create a more immersive sound.Dolby Atmos can be replayed on a traditional surround system or even with a pair of headphones thanks to technologies like Dolby Virtual:X and Dolby Headphones as well as in conjunction with Apple's own head-tracking technologies. While the biggest change in the cinema was the addition of height channels, Atmos soundtracks can work with many different systems, no height speakers required.
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While this format, also known as "immersive," was originally designed for movie theaters, it can now be used as a new way to remix and listen to music from the likes of The Beatles and Ariana Grande. It's also a competitor to DTS:X, and it's found in everything from the biggest commercial cinemas to home theater systems - and now it's on mobile phones and tablets too. It's a standard that can convincingly simulate a 3D audio space with a set of AirPods, but you may not know it's based on a technology that's been with us for many years: Dolby Atmos.ĭolby Atmos is a popular surround-sound format.

You may have heard the term "spatial audio" bandied about by Apple, especially when talking about its headphones and hardware.
