Headset with 3-D Sound

[Dr Sadako]

Altec Lansing’s AHS602 features SRS 3-D Audio technology, an audio enhancement technology that provides a realistic and spacious listening experience through headphones. This award-winning technology retrieves the spatial information from surround recordings and restores the original three dimensional sound field. Games and movies have never sounded better!

http://www.alteclansing.com/product_details.asp?pID=AHS602

[TeaLeaf]

Hmmm.  Any reviews?  Might be worth exploring if as and when my trusty Plantronics expire.....

TL.

[Dr Sadako]

Originally posted by TeaLeaf@Aug 13 2004, 11:20 AM
Hmmm.  Any reviews?  Might be worth exploring if as and when my trusty Plantronics expire.....

TL.

Not yet. It hasn't been released in Europe. Found it through a Swedish PC magazine. It is expected to be released this fall ... I hope they are not associated with Valve ....  <_<

[suicidal_monkey]

[scepticism]
hmmmmm :huh: sounds like a bit of marketing jargon to me!

To create 3d positional audio via a pair of speakers (i.e. not a 5.1 setup which uses physical separation to achieve 3d-audio-effects) the positional audio tends to come from the application producing the sound using algorithms like EAX and A3D. You can increase stereo separation and have better isolation figures independently of the sound source, which'd help improve 3d, but that's not exactly new.
[/scepticism]

but don't let me put you off them - their general specs, ignoring SRS, look pretty good anyway!