Spatial audio is trying its best to take off, but the implementation of it in the likes of the Sony WH-1000XM6 seems to be holding it back.

I put the Google Pixel Buds Pro in my ears, pick a YouTube video with spatial audio, leave the phone on the desk in front of me, and roll away on my revolving desk chair. I let go and start spinning.

Here’s what the latest surround-sound tech means for you Written By Written by Contributor, Buy Side Geoffrey Morrison is a contributor to Buy Side. Updated September 19, 2024, 9:42 AM EDT $479 $379 ...

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If you pay attention to the music industry, you’ve probably heard about spatial audio. The promise is that music will envelop the user from all directions without needing a room full of speakers to ...

Ever since Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville first warbled "Clair de Lune" onto a wax cylinder, purveyors of sound technology and recorded music have been trying to replicate the full listening ...

If you've bought a new iPhone like the iPhone 15 Pro Max or a new pair of Apple headphones or earbuds in the past year or two, then you've probably heard the sales pitch about spatial audio. But what ...

Google is enabling support for dynamic spatial audio over Bluetooth LE Audio in Android 15. Dynamic spatial audio allows for the direction of sound to change based on the listener’s head movements.

If you’ve been in a movie theater recently, you may have noticed that the sound is a whole lot more immersive. That’s thanks to spatial audio, a type of surround sound. The most well-known version is ...

I visited Qualcomm's audio development lab in San Diego to hear some of the newest tricks from Snapdragon Sound, like lossless audio over Bluetooth and head-tracking spatial audio. I’m PCMag’s home ...

Of the sweeping product line updates Apple unveiled this fall, the award for “most improved” may go to the AirPods Pro 3. I’ve been lucky enough to test out a variety of high-end audio products geared ...

My neighbors probably hate me. If the people next door weren’t such sweet octogenarians, I'm sure they would have called the cops on me for blasting music on the new Sonos Era 300 smart speaker. At ...