When you think of true surround sound stereo systems, you imagine cumbersome multi-speaker affairs that take all day to set up. Sony may have just upended that notion with its HT-AX7 portable theater ...

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 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 ...

Spatial audio is having a moment. While the goal of offering a more immersive, 3D-like listening experience may have been born in movie theaters, much of the conversation around spatial audio has ...

Surround sound makes watching movies at a theater that much more exciting than from your couch. The advanced speaker array creates an immersive experience that an increasing number of us want to ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Noise-cancelling headphones are part of everyday life for millions of people. If you have an interest in personal audio tech, you might know that active noise cancellation got its start in the field ...

Back in August of 2021, Netflix began supporting Apple’s home-grown Spatial Audio feature via the Netflix app for iOS. If you had a compatible iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV 4K, you had the opportunity to ...

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