Now that I’m back at my desk and not on the phone, currently, I wanted to try my Plantronics BackBeat Pro 2 headphones to see how they sound using with Dolby Atmos on. Not that they’re some great audiophile headphones, but they certainly have a better, fuller, richer sound than the AirPod Pros I normally use (plus great noise cancellation), so I figured they would be a good way to hear what difference there is.
I’ve had it set as Automatic on my iPad Pro and iPhone Pro Max, but noticed that for other brands of headphones, you need to set it to Always On to get it to play the Dolby Atmos version of songs.
I started playing the “Jazz in Spatial Audio” playlist, and switching over from stereo to Atmos the sound was wayyy better. It was as if I was standing on stage with the band. This is likely do to the fact that jazz has so few instruments and it’s easier for the software to stage the different elements apart, compared to rock, pop, etc. Whatever it is, it sounds awesome and does make me want to get back to listening to more music while working.
It’s also a reminder of just how much better music sounds when you’re listening on a good, or least better, pair of over the ear headphones. That being said, it’s been warm here and these things really do start to heat up my ears, whereas the AirPod Pros don’t have that issue and I even wear them during workouts daily, which I would never do with the Plantronics headphones. Everything is a trade off.
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