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AirPods max spatial audio on ios

  • 26 December 2022
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With the incredible AirPods Max in Deezer on iOS it seems I get spatial audio on all songs, but I understand music must be specially enabled for this..? Zimmer himself was keen on re-recording his pieces with this incredible technology..


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Zimmer told Lowe that he never listens to his own soundtracks “because usually they’re on stereo.” However, during the pandemic, the composer says he received a gift from none other than Jony Ive. Although they never met in person, Zimmer revealed that Ive always sent him “something,” and this time, the gift was a pair of headphones with a note saying “I made this.”

According to the composer, he experienced Spatial Audio for the first time with these headphones – and was delighted with the technology. Interestingly, when Zimmer contacted his friends at Dolby, he was told that the mysterious headphones “don’t actually exist.”

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“These headphones arrive and I put them on and they’re amazing and I suddenly realized, ‘Oh, we can do immersive. We can do Dolby Atmos. We can do all this,’ and I phone my friends at Dolby and I say, ‘We have to do this. I want to go and do the whole soundtrack again and I certainly want to do the CDs again and I want to do all this immersive experience,’ and I phoned Denis and I phoned all my guys and go, ‘You got to listen to these headphones,’ to which I of course get the reply, ‘Well, they don’t actually exist. I think you have the only pair.’ So, there was a little bit of that going on.”

 

 

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Best answer by Johnathan.Deezer 27 December 2022, 10:35

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Hello @Romanko

Yes, to listen on that quality you need to make sure you are listening the songs on HiFi quality, than it should be fine. 😊

Take care.

Unfortunately the app still never outputs more than Stereo which of course can be artificially spatialized as it says. It’s really easy to see on iOS whether your are getting multi channel or stereo output as it shows right next to the volume icon in the control center. Just go to spatial audio settings in iOS to see this show “multi channel”. After a long time with Deezer we may be forced to jump to Apple Music as a family… hmmm

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