Re: .mp4/.mp3 files in Surround Sound.

On 4/11/2024 10:57 AM, Joel wrote:

DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:

On 4/8/2024 6:31 PM, Joel wrote:

"Relf"  <Usenet@Jeff-Relf.Me> wrote:
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Once you've heard .mp4/.mp3 files in Surround Sound*, nothing else will do.
[ *: via the (70$) Logitech g635 HeadSet ]

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Surround sound from a headset?

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Absolutely.
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https://www.soundguys.com/surround-sound-headphones-guide-49389/

  Confirms my assumption.  Piece of shit sold to people who take a
chance on it.

It's a nice feature to enhance the realism of the sound from the music/movie/game.
  >>> WTF are you talking about, that's a gimmick and a half.

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No.

  Your link sure made it sound that way.

Then you didn't read it.
"By obtaining and reproducing these signals in a controlled way over headphones, you can reproduce an auditory event in space and experience it in an extremely lifelike way."
It's not gimmicky or trickery in any way.  It's pure science.  To determine where sound is coming from (right, left, front, back, above, below, any mix), our miraculous brain - with help from our ears - somehow processes the difference in time between sound waves reaching one ear vs the other.  So you can assume sophisticated computer programming generates sound to replicate that phenomenon within headphones.
Get Creepy Chris Ahlstrom's physically strong wife in here for a real explanation; she's a hearing science instructor at a medical university.