{"id":468323,"date":"2026-02-09T10:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/468323\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T10:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:34:11","slug":"steven-wilson-launches-studio-quality-immersive-sound-online-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/468323\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Wilson Launches Studio-Quality Immersive Sound Online Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll be the first to admit that while I know nothing about tech and sound from a behind-the-board perspective, my ears do work well enough to recognize when something sounds like shit. A master at knowing what does and does not sound like shit is our prog God, six-time-Grammy-nominated musician, songwriter and producer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metalsucks.net\/tag\/steven-wilson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Wilson<\/a>. He\u2019s never not up to a lot, and his most recent endeavor shows him bringing studio-quality immersive sound to masses. What exactly does that entail? I don\u2019t fuckin know, but whatever it is, he\u2019s calling it Headphone Dust.<\/p>\n<p>It seems like Headphone Dust will offer up special, high-resolution, 5.1, and Atmos\/spatial audi editions of Wilson\u2019s work. Its first release is Impossible Tightrope: Live In Madrid, which features the full, two-hour show of the final night of the European leg of Wilson\u2019s 2025 \u201cThe Overview\u201d tour in Stereo, 5.1 and Atmos. As of right now, there are no plans to release physical copies of this, so it\u2019s exclusive to Headphone Dust. The platform also offers a new Dolby Atmos mix of Wilson\u2019s 2013 album The Raven that Refused to Sing, as well as high-res editions of The Overview, The Harmony Codex, and more. Allegedly, a new Atmos mix of 2015\u2019s Hand. Cannot. Erase. will come out soon, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson said this of the new venture: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am thrilled to announce the launch of Headphone Dust, a new online platform dedicated to studio-quality immersive sound.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor some time, I\u2019ve wanted a permanent home for my work where listeners can hear the music exactly as I envisage it, without compression or compromise and in every audio format available.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile I remain committed to the Blu-ray format, I know they are not practical for everyone, and physical releases often go out of print. Headphone Dust solves this with \u2018Definitive Digital Editions\u2019 which establish the MKV format as a \u2018virtual Blu-ray,\u2019 making high-res, 5.1, and Dolby Atmos mixes as easily accessible as possible.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Headphone Dust is open now at headphonedust.store, so go check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019ll be the first to admit that while I know nothing about tech and sound from a behind-the-board&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,239337,136,239338],"class_list":{"0":"post-468323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-headphone-dust","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-steven-wilson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}