I have a 2 speaker + 1 subwoofer setup for my computer and it’s really good. I can hear enemies coming at almost any direction, even behind me when I’m playing games. How do my two speakers in front of me make sounds that sound like they’re coming from behind me? Is it some sort of auditory illusion?
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I’m not going to act like I know a ton on the topic, but it is something I decided to read up on a couple weeks ago, so I’ll give it a shot: we have two ears, yet we *already* somehow can tell sound direction. How? The way the sound has to bend around our ear and travel in differently gives it **tiny** timing delays, and we’ve learned to interpret those delays as direction. Companies have begun to research and try to replicate those delays, making the sound just a fraction of a second earlier or later and emulating direction. The general field is “binaural audio” or “binaural recording”
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