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View Poll Results: What should the basic minimal 2 track standard be on Blu Ray/ 4k/ internet video?
Basic two track stereo, possibly with Pro Logic code 2 33.33%
Stereo compatible 2 track surround sound mixed for headphones. 3 50.00%
Stereo Compatible 2 track surround sound mixed for sound bars 1 16.67%
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Old 05-21-2020, 06:57 PM   #1
tripletopper tripletopper is offline
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Cool Is basic two track stereo obsolete? (About Headphone surround 2 track)

I've got a pretty tough problem. My Turtle Beach headphones can decode movies but only if there are encoded in a Dolby format. two types of movies I have trouble getting working with my surround sound system are DTS and coated movies and lpcm an encoded surround movies and video games.

I noticed all these things have a basic to track stereo mode. but then again headphones around can fit in the same two tracks and be open to more people.

it seems like most of my movies are encoded in DTS and I cannot play them in surround because I have a Dolby only headphone converter.

So I did a little test. I took YouTube recordings of Star Trek continues which I believe are in codon Dolby random through my Dolby 5.1 Dolby headphone decoder and recorded the output of the Turtle Beach sync with the video on a DVD-R.

The first four videos my family did not listen to it in headphones and did not suspect I did anything to them. Even though it's headphone post decoded the communal listening of a simple stereo track did not affect a simple stereo play out in the main living room. The only time they suspected was when I change the setting in the Xbox 360 to double decode by accident. It ended up with an artificial robotic sound. I found my error and changed it and then I told him to put on the headphones and they were surprised at the headphones around was still in coded yet did not affect the standard to track stereo way of listening to it.

if that is the case then why is there still a standard to track stereo when a headphone mix could be slipped in and most people who listen to basic stereo will not notice much of a difference between basic stereo and headphone stereo being listened to communally?

I don't know of any actual two track movie enthusiasts. this is also a lower bandwidth way to provide surround sound people taking up two bands of audio bandwidth instead of six.

but again this is based on my personal experience of surround sound where my dad was going to get surround sound for the upstairs TV but couldn't because the labor alone would cost $10,000 to centrally balance back in 2008. that's around the time and I got my Turtle Beach when my friend, a professional gamer, said surround sound helped him echolocate opponents in 3d space in real time. He said there was no reason why it should not work for movies.

However later I found that DTS movies don't sound right.

By the way does anyone know of any hardware that could take any form of movie and convert it to a headphone surround two track soundtrack? It needs to decode about Dolby DTS and lpcm movies and games.

unfortunately all the headphones deal with gaming equipment and assume the hardware is doing the heavy lifting in the coding surround sound to headphone two track surround sound.

is there such thing as a decoder set that'll get eventually to what I want?

And really what's the advantage of just a basic stereo two track, non headphone surround mixed soundtrack?

On Xbox One. you can buy a Dolby Atmos headphone app. (Not sure how well DTS or lpcm works) and if Nintendo were smart one of the options for sound output should be two track headphone surround mix, instead of just basic stereo. best of all Nintendo doesn't have to pay a red cent to ease Adobe company or the DTs company if they included their own headphone mixers as the basic two track surround.h
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