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![]() It’s not at all new – look at this 1998 press release! I don’t really understand why there isn’t much awareness of Dolby Headphone. It’s able to model the audio delays and reflections of a room containing a 5.1 setup, plus it seems to boost up the low frequencies so you’re really aware of the LFE channel. Early 5.1 channel headphones actually contained multiple tweeters mounted at different positions inside each ‘can’ which apparently weren’t very convincing, but this better approach is more of an emulation – one that relies on the fact that you only have two ears. ![]() Reading the specs of these headphones, I discovered that they license a technology called Dolby Headphone – some clever signal processing developed by Lake DSP in Sydney. The problem is that I have a lot of content with DTS audio which the chips in these products don’t support, not to mention MP4 files with multichannel AAC audio. ![]() ![]() With some more reading I discovered that these hardware solutions will only work with a Dolby Digital source (AC-3). I was recently considering buying gaming headphones with support for Dolby Digital 5.1 channel audio which I could also use for watching films. Though I have owned a surround sound system before, I don’t currently have the space for one. ![]()
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