G933 Surround

[thetechygamer15]

Should i put it on or off? Anyone think its worth keeping on/off? Just got my pair yesterday

[eira]

Try them both out. Turn it on, try it out. If you like it keep it on. If you don't like it turn it off.

 

[an actual squirrel]

It's a very misunderstood concept, so it wouldn't surprise me if most people said no. But I say yes.

 

Some of the key aspects of spatial hearing is hearing things like how the outer ear amplifies certain frequencies in one ear relative to the other depending on the location of the sound, how the head filters out high frequencies for one ear depending on the location of the sound, and the time delay between ears for a sound depending on its location, and reflections from the environment. All of this information is absent when you use just regular stereo. It is present in binaural recordings and virtual surround sound.

 

With virtual surround sound, you end up getting more audio information from the game. The lack of information on stereo can cause problems. Check out this video here, where at 2m42s, where it asks you to track something with stereo and then with virtual surround sound. With stereo, the task is impossible, and you have to guess (odds are 50/50). But with virtual surround sound, you have enough information to rule out one of the possibilities and unambiguously know where the sound is coming from.