These would record the sound at various volumes based on distance and pass it to the output.
With older titles a game engine would have 2-7 "sound locations" depending on the sound output.
#Xear 3d vs dolby headphone full
The "Dolby Digital for Headphones" spec "tricks" your OS into providing a full surround source with multiple channels to the headset, which then mixes the various channels together.
This is about the one situation I'd suggest it. Gaming - Hearing footsteps behind me in game, in front, above, belowįor modern games with proper 3D positional sound engines? It really shouldn't make much if any difference.įor older (think pre-2012ish) games that didn't and only had a very simple sound engine, the cross sampling of dolby digital can give you much better positional audio.įor music it should make precisely 0 improvement, and in most cases will actually degrade the music since music is usually a stereo source anyways.įor movies it's useful the same way it is for older games. My question is, which is better for gaming and listening to music at the same time? I have come across 2 different headphones. It's currently a Stereo headphone and it's been working fine until now Hello! I was interested in buying a new gaming headphone as my old off brand one was beginning to show its wear after 2 years of use.