The melancholy of spatial audio: who hears our Atmos mixes as they should be heard?

Atmos mixing, believe it or not, comes with its own peculiar despair. A modern, high-resolution melancholy. As an Atmos engineer working with what we might call legacy albums, days can be spent resurrecting a track from archaeological fragments. No recalls. No notes. No guiding breadcrumbs from the assistant engineer in 1977 who sensibly labelled the [...]