Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Welcome To The Pleasuredome (Blu-ray Dolby Atmos)

Presentation

This is the Dolby Atmos TrueHD audio track from the Blu-ray. The Blu-ray is part of the 40th anniversary collector s box set, which includes seven CDs and the Blu-ray.

Steven Wilson delivers a new reference Dolby Atmos mix for this Frankie Goes To Hollywood album. The mix makes perfect use of spatialization and the immersive potential of the format, with sounds distributed throughout the entire space and subtle movement of certain instruments. Everything remains coherent and true to the spirit of the original music. A truly immersive experience to discover when listening on a multichannel Dolby Atmos system.

Rating:

  • Dynamic: ●●●●o (4.5)
  • Bandwidth: ●●●●o (4)
  • Spatialization: ●●●●●●●●oo (8.4)
  • Restitution: ●●●●o (4.5)

Spatialization: ●●●●●●●●oo (8.4)

Spatialization:

The spatialization of Bluray Dolby Atmos – 2025 version varies from track to track, with values between 4.4 and 9.7.

Spatialization : ●●●●●●●●oo (8.4)

Below the spatialization for all tracks. Click on the images to zoom in.

Waveform ,Spectrum and Dynamique: DR14 (Min: DR9 , Max: DR18)

The waveform of the Bluray Dolby Atmos – 2025 shows a high range confirmed with DR14.

The spectrogram of the Atmos in 7.1.4 version of blu-ray shows that the signal goes down to 24 kHz (yellow arrow) and that there is no signal above this frequency (white arrow), due to the 48 kHz sampling frequency used with Dolby Digital TrueHD encoding (lossless). The green arrow shows the 120Hz filtering of the bass channel (LFE).

The graph below represents the spectrum of the Bluray Dolby Atmos – 2025.
The Dolby Atmos remix downmixed to 7.1 is based on a sampling frequency of 48 kHz, limiting the bandwidth to 24 kHz (as indicated by the yellow arrow). The LFE channel is filtered down to 120 Hz (as indicated by the green arrow).

Sample : Relax (Come Fighting) 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.

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