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Serious question: You only have 2 ears so theoretically headphones should be able to produce the same experience as 7 speakers in a room. I imagine that is a hard problem, but is my understanding correct? Anyone know how hard this is?


That’s exactly what spatial audio is doing.


Thanks, somehow that was lost on me initially.




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