As we have mentioned, what Sony plans with service is to offer its users an immersive experience. In other words, they want to offer consumers a totally different, innovative, and contextual new experience, beyond the conventional stereo sound. This way, the main point is to make users feel like they are part of the context and the environment created by the music, that they themselves are a character.
Sony’s new product works with object-based spatial audio technology so that the user can enjoy the best possible music experience. This type of technology allows instruments, voices, or even sound effects to work individually and distribute on a specific channel. In this way, distances and angles are played with in order to create the sensation of immersion and achieve a totally enveloping effect.
As mentioned, in addition to Amazon Music HD, users who use platforms such as Tidal and Deezer will be able to enjoy 360 Reality Audio. In both cases, it will be necessary to have a paid subscription to be able to listen to the music tracks available in this new immersive format. In addition, work is underway to launch Nugs, a service that will allow users to record live concerts to listen to them and enjoy them later in this format. We are in luck because, initially, the 360 Reality Audio sound system is designed so that all users with any type of headphones and of any brand can enjoy this type of experience. In addition, if you have conventional speakers such as the SRS-RA5000 and SRS-RA3000 you are also in luck because they are certified for this type of audio.
In order to promote the product, Sony Music Entertainment collaborated on January 11 with the artist Zara Larsson for her to do a live demonstration recorded with the 360 Reality Audio system. Through this performance, they wanted to present what a surround sound video would be like, and above all, they wanted to demonstrate how this Sony technology based on spatial sound could be used to create a solution for all those music lovers who currently, as a result of the pandemic produced by Covid-19, cannot enjoy great live performances as they did before.