On July 5, 2025, Scorpions celebrated their 60th anniversary with a historic concert at the Heinz von Heiden Arena in Hanover, their hometown, performing in front of 45,000 fans. Presented under the slogan “Coming Home,” the evening retraced six decades of rock through their most iconic songs. The event was fully recorded and turned into a live album, Coming Home Live, which was released on December 5, 2025. This release allows fans around the world to relive this unique moment and celebrate this exceptional anniversary with the band. It also offers the opportunity to immerse oneself in the concert with both stereo and Dolby Atmos listening experiences.
For this review, you will find 2 versions tested:
Below you will find the description of the different editions, as well as the measurements of each edition in the following chapters.
The synthesis of the review and the samples are available here
The album is composed of 18 tracks:
- 60 Years! (Coming Home Live)
- Coming Home (Coming Home Live)
- Gas In The Tank (Coming Home Live)
- Make It Real (Coming Home Live)
- The Zoo (Coming Home Live)
- Coast To Coast (Coming Home Live)
- 70s Medley (Coming Home Live)
- Bad Boys Running Wild (Coming Home Live)
- Delicate Dance (Coming Home Live)
- Send Me An Angel (Coming Home Live)
- Wind Of Change (Coming Home Live)
- Loving You Sunday Morning (Coming Home Live)
- I’m Leaving You (Coming Home Live)
- Tease Me Please Me (Coming Home Live)
- Big City Nights (Coming Home Live)
- Still Loving You (Coming Home Live)
- Blackout (Coming Home Live)
- Rock You Like A Hurricane (Coming Home Live)
Summary, scoring and Samples
Ed 1: Tidal Dolby Atmos – 2025
Presentation
Spatialization:
The spatialization of Tidal Dolby Atmos – 2025 version varies from track to track, with values between 6.7 and 8.7.
Spatialization : ●●●●●●●ooo (7.5)
Below the spatialization for all tracks. Click on the images to zoom in.
Below the video spatialization for the track “Still Loving You” decoded in 9.1.6.
Waveform and Spectrum: DR13
The waveform of the Tidal Dolby Atmos – 2025 shows a high range confirmed with DR13.
The spectrogram of the Tidal Dolby Atmos track in 7.1.4 is limited to 20kHz (yellow arrow) with no signal above (white arrow). This limitation is due to Dolby Digital Plus encoding, which is a lossy encoder that limits bandwidth to optimize data size for a bit rate of 768 kbits/s. The green arrow shows the 120Hz filtering of the bass channel (LFE).
The graph below represents the spectrum of the Tidal Dolby Atmos – 2025.
The spectrum of Dolby Atmos version decoded in 7.1 shows that all channels are used. The white arrow indicates the high-frequency limit at 20 kHz due to Dolby Digital Plus encoding under the 24 kHz due to the 48 kHz sampling frequency used.
Synthesis and listening
The Dolby Atmos version is the ultimate way to fully experience the concert atmosphere. It immerses the listener in the heart of the crowd, recreating the live ambience with remarkable spatial precision. With a more dynamic and enveloping sound, listening at high volume delivers heightened energy, giving a true sense of attending the concert in person.
Rating:
- Dynamic: ●●●●o (4)
- Bandwidth: ●●●●o (4)
- Spatialization: ●●●●●●●ooo (7.5)
- Restitution: ●●●●o (4)
Sample : Still Loving You 7.1 Dolby Atmos (Downmixed in 7.1) :
The sample is in 7.1 wav format, if you can not play the sample in your navigator, you can save it, right button menu and “Save Audio As…” and play it with an external player.
Sample : Still Loving You Dolby Atmos (Downmixed 2.0) :
Ed 2: Tidal Max – 2025
Presentation
Waveform and Spectrum: DR7
The waveform of the Tidal Max – 2025 version shows a low dynamic range confirmed with DR7.
The spectrogram shows that the signal rises to 24 kHz (yellow arrow) with no signal above this frequency (white arrow) due to the 48 kHz sampling frequency.
The graph below represents the spectrum of the Tidal Max – 2025.
The maximum frequency of the spectrum is 24 kHz, which results from the 48 kHz sampling rate used.
Synthesis and listening
Although the stereo version offers a wide soundstage and faithfully captures the atmosphere of the concert, it cannot compete with the Dolby Atmos mix in terms of immersion. The latter places the listener at the heart of the crowd, recreating the live ambience with impressive spatial precision. Thanks to a more dynamic and enveloping rendering, listening at high volume delivers heightened energy, truly giving the impression of attending the concert in person.
Rating:
- Dynamic: ●●ooo (2)
- Bandwidth: ●●●●o (4)
- Restitution: ●●●oo (3)
Sample : Still Loving You 24 bits 48 kHz:
To fully enjoy the atmosphere and feel immersed in the crowd, the best way is to listen to the Dolby Atmos version on a 7.1.4 (or higher) multichannel system, allowing you to be truly at the heart of the concert.
Dynamic Range measurements and spectra are shown below.
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Measurements
Dynamic Range comparaisons
Dynamic represents the ability to reproduce a wide range of sounds from the softest to the loudest. The target is to compare the dynamics of the music and not of the media (CD, digital files or vinyl).
For our 2 editions reviewed have obtained the following Dynamic Range (DR) :
| Tidal Dolby Atmos – 2025 | Tidal Max – 2025 | |
| Global | DR13 | DR7 |
| Min | DR10 | DR5 |
| Max | DR15 | DR9 |
| 60 Years! (Coming Home Live) | DR10 | DR08 |
| Coming Home (Coming Home Live) | DR15 | DR06 |
| Gas In The Tank (Coming Home Live) | DR13 | DR06 |
| Make It Real (Coming Home Live) | DR13 | DR07 |
| The Zoo (Coming Home Live) | DR14 | DR08 |
| Coast To Coast (Coming Home Live) | DR14 | DR07 |
| 70s Medley (Coming Home Live) | DR15 | DR07 |
| Bad Boys Running Wild (Coming Home Live) | DR13 | DR07 |
| Delicate Dance (Coming Home Live) | DR14 | DR08 |
| Send Me An Angel (Coming Home Live) | DR14 | DR09 |
| Wind Of Change (Coming Home Live) | DR13 | DR07 |
| Loving You Sunday Morning (Coming Home Live) | DR13 | DR07 |
| I’m Leaving You (Coming Home Live) | DR14 | DR07 |
| Tease Me Please Me (Coming Home Live) | DR14 | DR05 |
| Big City Nights (Coming Home Live) | DR14 | DR07 |
| Still Loving You (Coming Home Live) | DR14 | DR07 |
| Blackout (Coming Home Live) | DR13 | DR07 |
| Rock You Like A Hurricane (Coming Home Live) | DR14 | DR06 |
As a reminder, the scale goes from 0 to more 20, but the dynamics are considered good from 12, quite good between 10 and 11, and deteriorate below 10.
Detail of the ratings :
- Dynamic :
- Significant dynamic compression, DR less than 7
- Compression of the present dynamics, DR between 7 and 9.
- Correct piece DR >=10
- No dynamic compression (DR >12), dynamic rendering
- No dynamic compression, high DR and very dynamic sound rendering
- Spectrum :
- Spectrum cut and less than 15 khz
- Spectrum cut at 15 khz
- Spectrum not conforming to the original and cut (not HD) or original but limited bandwidth (but less than 20 kHz)
- Spectrum conforming to the original (but not HD)
- Spectrum conforming to the original with HD resolution (higher than 24kHz)
- Surface noise (only for vinyl):
- Continuous audible noise
- Audible surface noise except on passages with a high level of noise
- Reduced surface noise, barely audible on low level crossings
- Low surface noise, very good quality
- Very low surface noise, no defects, almost inaudible on the quiet passages (exceptional disc)
- Spatialization :
- Between 0 and 5 for 5.1 or 7.1 channels configuration
- Between 0 and 10 for Atmos configuration (7.1.4)
- For more information on spatialization, you can read the article describing this parameter here.
- Restitution :
- Low quality of the restitution mixing dynamics, clarity, separation of voices and instruments.
- Average quality of the restitution mixing dynamics, clarity, separation of voices and instruments.
- Quality of the restitution mixing dynamics, clarity, separation of voices and instruments. Good record.
- High quality of the restitution mixing dynamics, clarity, separation of voices and instruments. Very high level disc.
- Maximum quality of the restitution mixing dynamics, clarity, separation of voices and instruments. Exceptional disc.