People confuse so-called 5.1 headphones with Dolby Headphone technology. DH is a Dolby technology to use over any pair of regular headphones, and it's the simplest and most effective of them all, especially for its compatibility with Dolby Pro-logic II, which works great for games. Headphones that have the dubious multispeaker array won't be as effective, or effective at all, no matter how many speakers they cram in there, because distance to speakers also needs to be simulated.
I still don't understand why Dolby Headphone is not a more mainstream product. It is absolutely outstanding, for both its effectiveness and its simplicity.
You guys should try this out, instead of buying expensive headphones. You can use this with any headphone, in fact I use it with my Shures and Grado headphones to watch movies late at night. It's brilliant.
The phone has 256MB of RAM and a 1GHz processor, which do the job reasonably well, though the Anna interface will likely leave something to be desired for many smartphone users.
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People confuse so-called 5.1 headphones with Dolby Headphone technology. DH is a Dolby technology to use over any pair of regular headphones, and it's the simplest and most effective of them all, especially for its compatibility with Dolby Pro-logic II, which works great for games.
Headphones that have the dubious multispeaker array won't be as effective, or effective at all, no matter how many speakers they cram in there, because distance to speakers also needs to be simulated.
I still don't understand why Dolby Headphone is not a more mainstream product. It is absolutely outstanding, for both its effectiveness and its simplicity.
You guys should try this out, instead of buying expensive headphones. You can use this with any headphone, in fact I use it with my Shures and Grado headphones to watch movies late at night. It's brilliant.
http://www.amazon.com/JVC-SUDH1-Surround-Headphone-Adaptor/dp/B000ETBZ5G
Thank a lot for the info!
I never knew of such a product.