
I thought I heard birds above me and when I was chased by Zelda's version of Goblins, when they were chasing me, one came close behind and to the left. I remember the Xbox One has an unadvertised "Uncompressed 2.0 + Bitstream 5.1" mode, it's just advertised as "uncompressed 2.0" and "bitstream" means Atmos or DTS:X, so I set the Switch on Stereo mode, and I had a toslink port adder, which works with HDMI video, and extracts the bitstream and sends it via HDMI, I sent it to the Turtle Beach X41, and picked Legends of Zelda BotW, because Bomberman and Shovel Knight doesn't seem to be good games to test 3d sound, and Zelda does, I could have sworn I heard 3-dimensional sound locations. Then the Switch came out and had a generic 5.1 surround, no mention of LPCM or other type of surround, so I thought there might be a Dolby mode. The Wii U specifically said LPCM 5.1, so if you got a Turtle Beach, Triton, or similar headset, you're out of luck. This entry was posted in Audio Technologies and tagged 5.1, AAC, AC3, Dolby, FLAC, mp3, surround by Marco Barnig. AAC is more advanced than the Dolby Digital AC3 codec. AAC is the standard audio format for YouTube, Apple (iPhone, iPod, iPad, …) and Sony devices (Playstation, Walkman, …). AAC has been standardized by ISO and IEC, as part of the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 specifications.

Lossy compression and encoding schemes for digital audio are MP3 and its successor AAC (Advanced Audio Coding). FLAC has support for metadata tagging, album cover art, and fast seeking.

FLAC is an open format with royalty-free licensing and a reference implementation which is free software.

The 5.1 system is used by Dolby Digital (AC3 codec), Sony Dynamic Digital Sound ( SDDS), Digital Theater Systems ( DTS), and Dolby Pro Logic II.Īll 5.1 systems use the same speaker channels and configuration, having a front left (L) and right (R), a center channel (C), two surround channels (SL and SR) and a subwoofer (LFE).Īudio files for 5.1 systems are often encoded with the lossless FLAC codec. It uses 5 full bandwidth channels (the “five”) and one low-frequency effects channel (the “point one”).

Suggested configuration for 5.1 music listening (Wikipedia)įive point one (5.1) is the name for six channel surround sound multichannel digital audio systems, most commonly used in commercial cinemas and home theaters.
