Beatles and Lennon Atmos Mixes Peak Over 0dB

Hi Guys, this is an interesting one that I've only seen with The Beatles and John Lennon Atmos mixes. All other Atmos mixes I own, peak well below 0dB. I tried reaching out to the mixing engineer on the new Mind Games release, but I couldn't find any contact info and wound up sending an email to someone else who worked on the album, but that was kicked back as a non-existent address. 

For now this is just informational, but I'd love to get to the bottom of why these releases are so maxed out. 

As a reference, here's Pearl Jam's latest album Dark Matter, with peaks shown. This is a heavy rock album. The stereo version likely peaks above 0 dB. The Atmos version, like all other Atmos albums, leaves plenty of headroom. 

Mind Games Atmos:

You can see the left, right, center, and right surround channels all peak over 0dB.

Gimme Some Truth Atmos:

You can see the left, right, center, and right surround channels all peak over 0dB.

Abbey Road Atmos:

You can see the left, right, and center channels all peak over 0dB.

Here's some additional information. Keep in mind The Beatles and John Lennon are the only Atmos releases like this, that I know of.

I captured Oh! Darling from Abbey Road for further analysis. 

The TrueHD Dolby Atmos version, with Dynamic Range Control set to disabled, from the Blu-ray looks like this. You can see the red lines where peaks go over 0 dB:

The TrueHD Dolby Atmos version, with Dynamic Range Control set to Normal, from the Blu-ray looks like this:

The Apple Music Dolby Digital+ Atmos version looks like this:

Don’t you have some other contacts at Abbey Road? Maybe they could help or get you a contact address of someone who can.

3 minutes ago, firedog said:

Don’t you have some other contacts at Abbey Road? Maybe they could help or get you a contact address of someone who can.

I didn’t think about contacting Abbey Road, but will see what I can come up with.