xar
Prominent Member
Made a interesting discovery of sorts yesterday. I was playing around with my Apple TV 4k box and the Infuse app to see if was a viable local streaming option for one of my TVs in the house (but was testing it in the cinema room with the Storm). The Apple TV only outputs uncompressed LCPM rather than Atmos for locally steamed files though, which is why I have never considered it as a dedicated player for the cinema room.
The Storm therefore defaults to Auro on receiving the LCPM track (as it does with all non-object based audio), but on putting on a few of my regular demo scenes the sound was much more 'intense'. The bass in particular had considerably more slam/impact.
I would need to do more testing, and it might get fatiguing for a whole movie, but my gut reaction was that the combo of of LCPM and Auro adds slam and impact without losing the 'space' from object based codecs. Not saying its better by any means, but it was certainly very good.
As most movies I would watch have Atmos already I haven't really listened to a lot of content with Auro engaged (but have only heard good things), but the combo seems to have potential. I have no doubt I am committing some sort of cardinal sin, but will report back after a few movies.
The Storm therefore defaults to Auro on receiving the LCPM track (as it does with all non-object based audio), but on putting on a few of my regular demo scenes the sound was much more 'intense'. The bass in particular had considerably more slam/impact.
I would need to do more testing, and it might get fatiguing for a whole movie, but my gut reaction was that the combo of of LCPM and Auro adds slam and impact without losing the 'space' from object based codecs. Not saying its better by any means, but it was certainly very good.
As most movies I would watch have Atmos already I haven't really listened to a lot of content with Auro engaged (but have only heard good things), but the combo seems to have potential. I have no doubt I am committing some sort of cardinal sin, but will report back after a few movies.