TIDAL adds jazz classics to its 360 Reality Audio catalogue including torch songs to cool jazz to fusion as part of its rollout of Sony’s 360 Reality Audio format. TIDAL introduced the new immersive format at the end of October this year and has been gradually adding content which is available through its mobile apps. Jazz classics such as Holiday’s Lady in Satin (1958), Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue (1959) and Dave Brubeck’s Time Out (1959) are some of the tracks picked out for special notice in a blog posting 360 Reality Audio: A Jazz Primer by Morgan Enos. The immersive format enhances ‘the sensation of bodies in space… by mastering each sound – a horn, a drum, a singer – to its own carefully positioned channel.’ TIDAL claim that you can ‘Close your eyes and you can nearly locate the players in front of and around you.’
To see a complete list of TIDAL’s 360 playlists and albums, visit the mobile app’s Explore page and scroll down to ‘360 Reality Audio’ as new albums are added weekly.
What is 360 Reality Audio?
360 Reality Audio is an immersive experience using Sony’s spatial audio technology to map out sound at any point or distance from your ears. This new listening experience is the culmination of years of acoustic and physiological studies of how we hear and place sounds. When streaming in 360 Reality Audio, the listener is made to feel as if they were at a concert experiencing a live performance.
In conventional stereo or 5.1 channel surround sound, speakers are fixed in position and the sound can only be panned around that fixed-format on a horizontal plane. 360 Reality Audio utilizes a spatial sound field by creating multiple virtual speakers which can be heard in front, back, above, and below you in a true 360-degree space.
Individual sounds such as vocals, piano, guitar, bass, and even sounds of the live audience can be placed in a 360 spherical sound field, giving artists and creators a new way to express their creativity. Listeners can be immersed in a field of sound exactly as intended by artists and creators.
If you want to learn more about 360 Reality Audio, you can do so here at Sony.com.
