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Your Guide to Dolby Atmos and Immersive Audio Systems

Your Guide to Dolby Atmos and Immersive Audio Systems

How Dolby Has Changed the Meaning of Immersive Audio at Home

The very first Dolby Atmos surround sound system was installed in the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, CA, in 2012. Since then, Dolby has worked to bring immersive audio systems into the mainstream, including your home theater.

Today, it is not uncommon to see Dolby Atmos featured on boxes of new TVs and A/V receivers, online music streaming services, and cars. Dolby is sweeping the sound industry with their revolutionary immersive audio system. Continue reading to learn how you could bring a Dolby Atmos experience into your Franklin Lakes, NJ, home theater.

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Next Generation Surround Sound

The Dolby Atmos immersive audio system has been called the next generation of surround sound. But, at its core, it is genuinely different from surround sound. It is a new way of mixing and editing audio for a 3D sound effect.

Surround sound is a technology that assigns audio to specific channels. These channels feed to speakers, which you place around your viewing room. For example, the sound of someone speaking in a movie would typically come from front speakers, while background sounds like birds chirping or car horns honking would come from the back-placed speakers. The speaker placement and distribution of sound give you that pleasant surround sound effect, making you a part of the story.

Immersive audio treats each sound as an object. Unlike surround sound, where programming assigns sounds to channels, the objects used in immersive audio are placed on a sound field, moved, and manipulated to create a 3D sound. Instead of sounds coming from specific channels, sounds move from speaker to speaker based on the location of the object you see on the screen in your home theater. It creates a more realistic viewing and listening experience!

Bring Dolby to Your Home Theater

As Dolby Atmos has become more mainstream, it has become in higher demand for homeowners who want to experience movie-plex-quality home entertainment. Who wouldn’t enjoy the immersive audio experience at home?

To bring Dolby Atmos into your home, you will need:

  • A compatible AV receiver that can decode Atmos soundtracks
  • At an Atmos speaker package or sound bar – these are available from a variety of brands
  • A compatible TV 
  • Dolby Atmos consistent content, now available through a variety of streaming services

Most models of entertainment technology, like TVs and receivers, are now being made Dolby-compatible. But check the box just to be sure!

 

To help you get the best possible immersive audio system experience in your Franklin Lakes, NJ home, be sure to contact the experts at Electronic Concepts. We can help you set up and fine-tune your audio for the perfect movie experience. Contact us for more information, and we would love to help you bring your home theater to life.

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