But, as I said, the AirPods Pro have their sonic limitations in terms of overall sound quality - clarity and definition is a little lacking by audiophile standards. Most people should be impressed with what they hear. Starting with a stereo signal probably won't yield the best virtual surround experience, however. Stereo tracks can also get the spatial-audio treatment if the app developer adds an Apple plug-in. The feature is only designed to work with the iPhone 7 or better (it works with the new iPhone SE but not the old SE, iPhone 6S or any iPod Touch) and more recent iPads (the third-gen or later 12.9‑inch iPad, the 11‑inch iPad Pro, the third-gen iPad Air, sixth-gen or better iPad and fifth-gen iPad Mini). Typically, when you move your head, the surround effects disappear. If you turn around and face the opposite direction from your screen, dialogue, in fact, will appear to be coming from behind you. If you turn your head or move your device, the dialogue track - actors' voices - remains fixed to the screen, with sounds appearing to be coming from behind you, above you and to the left and right.
Sound is placed virtually in a 3D space relative to the location of your screen. But Apple's new spatial audio feature uses the AirPods Pro's built-in accelerometers and gyroscopes to track the motion of your head while simultaneously tracking the position of your iPhone or iPad with their accelerometers and gyroscopes. It's been available on headphones for many years, most recently with Dolby Atmos. You do get the sensation that bullets are flying around you in those dive-bomb scenes in Midway and the audio, in general, feels more spacious and directional.Īs I've said before, simulated surround sound isn't a new feature. But it is a decent facsimile made more remarkable because it's coming from such a tiny set of earbuds. No, spatial audio isn't going to deliver the same kind of surround sound experience that my 7.1 home theater does with seven speakers and a sub placed appropriately around a room (I don't have an Atmos set up).
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I watched about 15 minutes of the movie 1917 from my library on Apple TV Plus, along with an episode of Ted Lasso - a surprise hit for Apple - then shifted over to HBO Max on an iPad (6th-gen) to watch Midway, which seemed ideal for testing surround-sound effects, with all its WWII dogfight scenes and aircraft-carrier bombing runs through enemy fire. (The feature is currently not working yet for Netflix or Amazon Video.) The AirPods Pro will convert 5.1-channel, 7.1-channel or Dolby Atmos digital audio signals into virtual surround - and it will eventually work with any video streaming app that supports multichannel audio, including Vudu, Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus, HBO Go and Max, Amazon Video and the Apple TV Plus app, of course.
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