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Sony recommended the use of headphones when watching their PS5 reveal video. Did you, and did you notice anything out of the ordinary?
- Thread starter jett
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No. I kept waiting for something like those videos that were posted recently, but it never happened.
How expensive did my headsets have to be? Because i was using the headset i use for gaming (Sony gold)
I paid attention during GT7 and thought "is this what I'm listening for? The car engines?" and was confused because I'm sure if I listened to a previous GT or other racer vid on YT with headphones it'd have sounded the same.
Initially i forgot they were doing this but when i switched to headphones I could definitely tell a slight difference, mainly from the Ratchet demo. everything after that was mostly flat and consistent. I should also mention that i watched this on Twitch.
Edit: Watching it now on youtube from a different computer with a cheaper set of headphones. The sound is definitely spacial and often moves from one ear to the other depending on what's happening. It's very noticeable during the ratchet & clank trailer and gameplay. I also want to note that the music for Stray is fantastic
Edit: Watching it now on youtube from a different computer with a cheaper set of headphones. The sound is definitely spacial and often moves from one ear to the other depending on what's happening. It's very noticeable during the ratchet & clank trailer and gameplay. I also want to note that the music for Stray is fantastic
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Don't forget, the whole technology is based on the shape of your ears being compatible. The actual console will have 5 different ear styles to choose from to find the one that works best for you, this video only had one of course.
Worked pretty great for me, I wore on-ear noise canceling headphones, and it sounded like surround-sound - not just the trailers, they had the event music coming from all around too. The Gran Turismo gameplay I could hear cars passing from front to back on the right. Of course, then I tried my small bone-conducting headphones, the entire effect was gone.
You can still get the effect from the trailers, so if anyone missed it, just watch a game trailer with the best headphones you have.
Worked pretty great for me, I wore on-ear noise canceling headphones, and it sounded like surround-sound - not just the trailers, they had the event music coming from all around too. The Gran Turismo gameplay I could hear cars passing from front to back on the right. Of course, then I tried my small bone-conducting headphones, the entire effect was gone.
You can still get the effect from the trailers, so if anyone missed it, just watch a game trailer with the best headphones you have.
the same guys that say they hear a difference when they have two different gold plates cables hooked up to their amps.
Its all in their heads
Definitely heard a voice of someone in the Ratchet trailer coming from behind me. Pretty sure there were others but my mind didn't really care that much. There was so much going on.
used the psvr packed in earbuds cause I didn't have any others
used the psvr packed in earbuds cause I didn't have any others
Only the glider section in Astrobot. Although 3D audio is probably better experienced when playing the game rather than quick-edited promo videos.
Wouldnt you need supported hardware to even hear the 3D audio processing though? Isnt this like trying to watch hdr videos on non-hdr screens?
Maybe the effect was better in the full quality of the video, but the stream definitely wasn't amazing.
I noticed some nice audio stuff in the Gran Tourismo stuff... but that was basically it.
I noticed some nice audio stuff in the Gran Tourismo stuff... but that was basically it.
No, the processing is just to generate the 3D sound, what is output from the PS5 hardware is just normal stereo sound that works in regular headphones that happens to have characteristics your brain uses to determine the directionality of the sounds. So they just recorded that and played it back later on the stream. However, without the hardware you can't set up your audio profile tuned specifically for your ear type, so it won't work well if your ear type isn't close to the one they chose to record.
You can go to YouTube now and watch the trailers to see if you hear it, if it was a problem with Twitch streaming quality
There were some great sounding parts with my HD58x's on but I didn't really notice much 3d besides the fact that it did sometimes sound pretty spacial.
It's funny because one of the things I was talking about was that the audio sounded weirdly good for an event like this. I listened on my DT770's. The music sounded so damn good during the console reveal but I'm sure audio compression on streaming platforms ruined some of it.
yeah compare the stream to other binaural youtube videos and it was a night and day difference. There was no "astounding" sound quality as one poster put it
Other than the actual part where it said 3D audio (which was so brief anyways), I heard nothing different to normal. And I was prepared for something great after listening to some recent YouTube stuff so was left with nothing. Which is a shame because it would have been a great taster for what's to come. Still they could upload plenty of trailers to showcase this now and I hope they do.
Okay so... I now notice a difference after rewatching some trailers with my TV speakers vs my Headphones and yeah I think I will be picking up those PS5 3D pulse headphones when they come out.
Why would there be anything different? At best you would have got a good binaural stream.
You're not playing this on PS5 hardware, so you... don't benefit from it's marketed sound processing and it's all up to your playback device capabilities.
Sony marketing is powerful, but kinda a bit too shameless lately i feel.
That stream quality was also something else...
You're not playing this on PS5 hardware, so you... don't benefit from it's marketed sound processing and it's all up to your playback device capabilities.
Sony marketing is powerful, but kinda a bit too shameless lately i feel.
That stream quality was also something else...
