Is there a way to see that the Stage receive sound including Atmos metadata?
Searched in the app but no luck.
Location: Sweden
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Indication of Atmos in Beosound Stage?
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I’ve been playing with exactly this in the past few days. No visual indicator that I’ve seen. After configuration fiddling, I got my Apple devices to send an Atmos stream to my Core/Shape. Counterintuitively, I found that Atmos narrowed the perceived sound stage.
What’s your experience?
EDIT: to be clear, assuming you’re using Apple Music, the visual indicator is the presence of the Atmos logo on the Apple Music page, as you’re playing the stream. If not configured properly, the logo won’t appear.
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Thanks Beofredrik.
I don't have the Stage in my home. I helping my son a bit that has acquired a Stage for his new apartment.
Focus for us is mainly to see that Atmos is present while watching movies.
Location: Sweden
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I found was I was looking for.
In the app under settings and sound info, I found this screen:
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I was puzzled why it did not say Atmos.
Then I changed the sound out setting in the TV (Apple TV is connected to the TV) from PCM to Auto and then the following showed:
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All good! ?
Location: Sweden
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The setting PCM in the ATV means that the ATV must decode the stream - this way you won’t get any Atmos metadata….and thus no indication in the app.
If set to Auto the ATV will know what us on ‘the other end’ and will send the Atmos stream for the Stage to decode = indication in the app.
MM
Location: Flensborg————Danmark
Hi,
Why it's not "Dolby Atmos" too in audio codec?
I dont understand.
Is there a noticeable difference in sound from PCM to Atmos on the Stage?
It does take some attention to settings of a device to get Dolby Atmos being sent. I just sat through the James Bond movie "No Time to Die" and though the sound was amazing. However, when I checked what the sound was on the B&O app, it showed 7.1 True HD PCM. I had the output on the Sony UHD player set correctly to "Auto." However, I needed to turn the setting for "Secondary audio" to "off." This wasn't really very intuitive. After doing so, I got "Dolby Atmos" shown on the B&O app. I went back and re-watched a few scenes and was blown away by the difference.
BTW, the Theatre really shows the difference between compressed and uncompressed audio. On a lesser quality speaker, streaming might seem fine. However, with a UHD you get to realize the full potential of B&O speakers with the lossless sound.
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