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While CNET's David Carnoy has tested spatial audio with the AirPods, I was interested to hear how the experience scaled up to a full home theater system. I regularly test Dolby Atmos playback in movies as part of my day-to-day work, but music in spatial audio is something different. I did some listening tests with a Marantz SR6013, an Apple TV 4K and a Klipsch 5.1.2 Dolby Atmos speaker setup. As with DVD-Audio and quadraphonic before it, the success of spatial music (i.e. Dolby Atmos Music) depends mostly on the quality of the mix itself. Every album since the late '60s has been mixed in stere

You can find Spatial Audio music on Apple Music, Amazon Music and Tidal. The spatial audio tracks are typically included in the lowest subscription tier, but of course this could change. You'll see icons near the albums or songs that support spatial audio, and there are usually spatial audio playlists to get a wide variety of songs to test your new gear. For which of those is the best option, check out Best Music Streaming Service of 2026.

The internet is already clogged with AI slop. The last thing we need is another flood of horrible content. Music may be a tougher category to master than text or images because people form emotional bonds with songs. That makes tools like Lyria 3 interesting, but also more sensitive to scrutiny. Von Seggern thinks the audio quality is "quite good," but he was less impressed by its originality. "I was disappointed that it seemed pretty generic," he said.

Google says it believes in working alongside artists to enhance human creativity, not to replace it. Grammy-winning artist Wyclef Jean used Lyria 3 as a creative tool during the development of his song, Back From Abu Dhabi. Jean says, "There's one thing we have over AI, and that's soul. There's one thing that AI has over us, and that's infinite creation," calling the combination of both "invincible." And it seems other artists, like Grimes, wouldn't mind if their music is used for training or fusion with AI, but for compensation. Others have seemed to try to take it to the dark side. In 2025,