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[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Except most people don't give a shit about Dolby. Even audophiles mostly don't care about them as a company or the fact that they're involved beyond the games ability to support high end output devices. Put that garbage on the box or in the credits at the end of the game where it belongs

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Most people that say they give a shit about surround sound don't have it set up correctly anyway lol

They're lucky if the speakers are even in the right place....let alone tuned properly. Good AVRs come with a microphone and most of the takeover projects I did when I was in home AV had it sitting unopened in the box.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Audiophiles loathe that crap. It's not making better sound, just adds loudness and other shit. Surround? It's like when groups long time ago started using stereo and made the sound Left then Right then LEFT etc. After the first experience its just a nuisance.

But gotta sell the crap I guess. Good they just didn't care about big corpo :-)

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No way you just dissed stereo, were you filtered by Vulcan Raven in MGS1?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

If you don't have more or less a listening room with the loudspeakers very well placed, you won't notice a difference. Mono with a good setup will give spatial clues as good as stereo. Yes you might get the left-right mixed up I guess but does it matter?

There was some mp3 matchbox shaking sound clip that really felt like it went around your head (popular maybe 10-15 years ago?), a simple mobile phone produced the effect very well, you just needed to close your eyes.

[–] thesystemisdown@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Half assed audiophile here. I only have two ears. I just want clean and balanced. Two channels is just fine.