Which is better Stereo or 7.1 surround?

[[DEAF] DivisDonze]

I am confused because the people said some Rainbow Six siege can support to 7.1 and some not support 7.1 either. Why do it’s Rainbow six siege not support 7.1? Then is it possible with stereo in this? Help me

[Striker]

ROG Centurions, i have 0 problems with 7.1 surround sound.

[[DEAF] DivisDonze]

Ohh okay thank you very much

Originally posted by Striker:

ROG Centurions, i have 0 problems with 7.1 surround sound.

[[DEAF] DivisDonze]

Wow it’s crazy for too expensive

Originally posted by Striker:

ROG Centurions, i have 0 problems with 7.1 surround sound.

[sad]

There are a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of people telling you 7.1 surround is garbage marketing and the few “gamuhs” telling you it’s the best ♥♥♥♥ to have ever blessed their ears (Simlar to how people claim Macs and Beats are good, or Corsair/Razer/Logitech keyboards are good).

I’ve tried it and here’s the few things I’ve noted:

For what it’s worth, if you can get 7.1 for cheap and it is actually the multi driver thing, I found them enjoyable in single player open worlds and the experience is different to say the least.

If you plan on listening listening to music with them, get better STEREO headphones from reputable manufacterers like Sennheiser or Audio Technica.

I use stereos for Siege as well. As far it goes, most games nowadays have good binaural audio where stereo is generally recommended anyways.

[sad]

Originally posted by DEAF DivisDonze:

Wow it’s crazy for too expensive

Originally posted by Striker:

ROG Centurions, i have 0 problems with 7.1 surround sound.

If you’re looking into buying headphones, leave a budget so most of us know what you’re aiming for.

[Navhkrin]

I prefer stereo because of higher sound quality, which matters more to me since no game is properly handling 3d audio properly anyways except overwatch. Overwatch supports Dolby Atmos which makes some fancy calculations to introduce delays to sounds on different ears to give you full 3d audio experiance which interestingly enough works for stereo.

If you have windows 10 you can use Windows Sonic, which is also good, not as good as Dolby Atmos tho, but gets the job done. Atmos is like whole other experiance, like going 144hz.

[3 foxes in a trenchcoat]

Originally posted by Navhkrin:

I prefer stereo because of higher sound quality, which matters more to me since no game is properly handling 3d audio properly anyways except overwatch. Overwatch supports Dolby Atmos which makes some fancy calculations to introduce delays to sounds on different ears to give you full 3d audio experiance which interestingly enough works for stereo.

If you have windows 10 you can use Windows Sonic, which is also good, not as good as Dolby Atmos tho, but gets the job done. Atmos is like whole other experiance, like going 144hz.

Dont forget csgo with its hdtf ♥♥♥♥

[NeuroticSlav]

I have 7.1 and while its great in some games in siege its pretty bad.

[Kptn Howdy]

Originally posted by WokAn'Roll:

There are a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of people telling you 7.1 surround is garbage marketing and the few “gamuhs” telling you it’s the best ♥♥♥♥ to have ever blessed their ears (Simlar to how people claim Macs and Beats are good, or Corsair/Razer/Logitech keyboards are good).

except it is garbage marketing

[MrBananaGrabber]

Mono.

[St4rPT_]

Originally posted by WokAn'Roll:

There are a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of people telling you 7.1 surround is garbage marketing and the few “gamuhs” telling you it’s the best ♥♥♥♥ to have ever blessed their ears (Simlar to how people claim Macs and Beats are good, or Corsair/Razer/Logitech keyboards are good).

I’ve tried it and here’s the few things I’ve noted:

For what it’s worth, if you can get 7.1 for cheap and it is actually the multi driver thing, I found them enjoyable in single player open worlds and the experience is different to say the least.

If you plan on listening listening to music with them, get better STEREO headphones from reputable manufacterers like Sennheiser or Audio Technica.

I use stereos for Siege as well. As far it goes, most games nowadays have good binaural audio where stereo is generally recommended anyways.

I use Asus Strix 7.1 and they are damn good both for gaming and hearing music (I have an option to use 7.1 surround or stereo but I don't tend to turn off the 7.1 not even for music)

[JRDN]

I have sennheiser PC373d
they come with built in 7.1 which is amazing
they also come with a sound card built into the wire which can activate Dolby surround
I rarely use it as it lowers the sound quality but does make it eeasier to hear stuff

[SpectatorX]

"5.1" and "7.1" "gaming" headsets are marketing bs as you have only two speakers on them (right and left ear) and it is impossible to have subwoofer on headset, lol (.1 stands for subwoofer). More channels are not real channels but software emulated which usually is done by cloning left and right channel to multiple ones.

Game supports up to 7.1 channels:
https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Tom_Clancy%27s_Rainbow_Six_Siege#Audio_settings
The full use of 7.1 channel you will make ONLY with actual 7.1 SPEAKER SETUP and dedicated sound card. Onboard soundcards nowadays are decent but still not as good as dedicated ones. Personally i'm using 5.1 speaker setup connected to creative x-fi titanium (old card, not available anymore but still rock solid) and i would never think of replacing such configuration with some "gaming" headset as that would be abomination. This setup gives me really amazing feel of where enemies are and where certain things are going on. I often get in text chat "how did you know?" messages and most of the time it is because sound helped me a lot and in this game sound is as important as collecting and giving info to teammates.

P.S.
I laugh hard when i imagine headset with subwoofer attached to it :D

[luckz]

https://www.reddit.com/r/headphones/comments/6rtbcb/guide_every_headphone_surround_virtualization_on/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlqpG2euh50