

I quickly became obsessed with finding out which of my favorite albums were mixed in Dolby Atmos for immersive spatial listening, and had a blast listening to everything from chill indie to explosive hard rock from a new perspective. Not only did Spatial Audio track my head movements - keeping each instrument in a fixed place as if I were at a live concert - it also highlighted vocal harmonies and small background instrumentation I never noticed when listening on Spotify. I was calmly bobbing my head to Turnstile’s “Glow On” - an album I’ve listened to dozens of times - when the soaring anthemic chorus of the blistering punk song “Endless” suddenly hit me like a truck. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN accountĪ few weeks back when testing out the AirPods Max, I decided to fire up Apple Music to see how the company’s immersive 360-degree Spatial Audio tech held up on the high-end headphones.
