Account still mega slow for unknown reason. I think maybe a delete/reset is needed to fix whatever is corrupted in the profile/account....
Anyway, if you want a MEGA Dolby Atmos demo album, get Booka Shade's "Dear Future Self" music album. It's available at Amazon UK as a pure audio blu-ray. It's pretty much techno/house music, but it puts sounds literally everywhere possible in the room. It even sounds pretty crazy in just 5.1 upstairs, but in Atmos, there are sounds all over the ceiling, back of the room and everywhere in-between!
Similarly, Lichtmond 4 - The Journey is awesome in Dolby Atmos. It's more Enigma/Delerium meets Pink Floyd with 2D or 3D CGI visuals of space and strange planet surfaces. Vocals and instruments appear everywhere and even rotate around you in circles at times.
Lichtmond 3 - Days of Eternity is also quite good, but it's in Auro-3D (Neural X does a reasonable job with the 5.1 DTS-HD track if you don't have Auro-3D decoding).
Mando Diao's Aelita is also great in Auro-3D with sounds all over the place (closer to synth-rock).
Movies.... (some recent ones I've watched that come to mind; I find it odd I actually have several Auro-3D reviews....)
Disappointments
Back to the Future 4K 1-3 in Atmos. 2 at least has the cars overhead, but 1 & 3 are mostly ear level + thunder overhead and most of the sound effects in the movie are arrayed through front/middle/back. This means how immersive the sounds are is entirely dependent on where you sit in the room relative to your speakers. If you sit in the middle or back, there's a lot more going on in the surrounds. If you sit closer to the front, a lot of the surround effects (e.g. clocks chiming at the beginning) appears more in the front wide speaker location and seems more like a very large front soundstage. I'd prefer discrete sounds that aren't dependent on where I sit. It took me awhile to figure out what was going on. Obviously, some of the bigger effects are more discrete like the steam venting into the back of the room, but it's quite odd really.
Top Gun 4K/Atmos - On the plus side, it puts things where they need to go without requiring Neural X to get the jets overhead and it's still an awesome soundtrack, but Neural X already had the jets overhead and there's not much new in terms of imaging beyond the obvious improvements in placement up/down that Neural X pretty much already handled just fine. On the down side, the LFE channel is like 4-6dB lower than the DTS-HD 6.1 version on the previous Blu-Ray and 3D Blu-Ray. You pretty much have to crank up your LFE channel to get it in the same ballpark.
Middling (Better than 5.1, not totally awesome, but has some nice moments)
Beetlejuice 4K/Atmos. It has some nice surround and overhead moments, but they're kind of infrequent.
Jumanji - The Next Level - Awesome fun movie (just as funny as the last one believe it or not), but while it has decent surround effects at ear level, the overhead effects are most noticeable for the "new life" ping more than anything else, same as the last one. The original with a retrofit Atmos soundtrack is truly awe-inspiring, though (animals all over the room and flying bugs right above your heads, etc.!)
Domino (2019)(Netherlands Auro-3D version) - This one was a pain to get a hold of. I had a hard time finding a place that would ship the Auro-3D version to the USA and then it has no forced English subtitles (they're in Dutch and not forced; they don't say a whole lot you couldn't imagine anyway, IMO; I've ordered the US Blu-Ray to rip the subtitles (or move the Auro-3D soundtrack to it). The Auro-3D soundtrack is in English, however. The movie is just OK. It seems closer to a decent B-movie than a Class A thriller, but if you enjoyed Game of Thrones, it has two popular actors from it, including the extremely attractive Carice Van Houten. Anyway, it does put several sounds overhead throughout the movie (e.g. buzzer upstairs, planes, drones, music). If anything, it seemed heavy on overhead and lighter on ear level to me. This makes Auro-3D movie #13 for me along with 5 music albums and 2 demos discs (not too bad for a format that's not doing well; more titles are still coming out, mostly music, but movies seem limited to Dutch film versions and German Turbine releases lately (although both usually have English soundtracks where that's what the native movie had). Sony seems to have abandoned it.
Pretty Good
Charlie's Angels 4K/Atmos (2000 original movie). This had a pretty good Atmos remix with some excellent overhead helicopter and rocket sounds along with explosions, birds, etc. and improved rear channel support. I wasn't disappointed in this one. It's not made for Atmos, but it fits. Ironically, it has Crispin Glover in it from Back to the Future as The Thin Man.
Salyut-7 (Russian Federation version in Auro-3D with 3D visuals) had a surprisingly good immersive soundtrack in Auro-3D with decent depth in 3D visuals. It's a compelling story, but the dialog is in Russian. I had to snag some English subtitles off the Net and mux them into the file to display with my Zidoo X9S to be able to understand what they were saying. It makes pretty decent use of overhead and other surround sounds when it's called for. It was certainly not disappointing for a foreign (Russian) title.
Death Machine from Turbine was actually a pretty good remix for an old horror movie (walls of sound floor to ceiling) in Auro-3D.
