I understand how Dolby Atmos works on 5.1 and 7.1 systems, but wouldn’t translating it to headphones just make it standard stereo? Headphones only have two speakers, one on the left and one on the right.
Even without head tracking like Apple’s spatial audio, why does surround still sound different from stereo?
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This one gets answer fairly often in various forms. [Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/ldzj17/ELI5%3A_In_8D_audio%2C_how_is_the_audio_able_to_sound_like_it%27s_behind_or_in_front_of_you_even_though_there_are_only_left_or_right_outputs%3F/gm8vmzd/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3) is an answer I gave before that people seemed to like.
Short version, you’re always only listening to left and right because you only have two ears. The trick is just in how to make the right combination of signals at your ears. Multiple speakers let you physically make sounds come from different directions. But you can also manipulate the sounds themselves to give that effect.
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