You do need special equipment (soundbar or headphones), but you can hear a difference with any setup.Do you need certain types of earphones / headphones to get the Atmos experience or can you tell the difference regardless?
it's definitely not the album as it was released in 1990 though. Lucky Star and Borderline are much longer, and there is this new outro to Papa Don't Preach which may or may not have been replaced by now. Given all that, I'm not sure what that means for the reissues. Are they going to be rejigged so they're more to her current liking?