Spatialize stereo - anybody actually using this?

[bigshot]

Spatial audio is supposed to be less about a linear path and more about separating the instruments. There is no “path” but the vocals are supposed to sound close while the drums sound farther away. Or how ever the sound engineer wants it to be. Whether it is successful or or not is up for debate.

That may be true, but separation like that is more a function of the mix than it is the playback. If spatial audio isn't supposed to be like surround sound or Atmos, then the heavy lifting is being done by the higher quality mixes being done for multichannel releases, not the actual technology of spatial audio. Listening to the Jazz tracks in the Apple Music site, it's clear that the regular version is an entirely different mixing philosophy than the Spatial Audio version.

 

[BB-8]

I tried it, but all it felt like was using a slightly different mix of the song, nothing special about it. At which point I'd rather just use the original stereo mix as what the artist/engineers originally intended.