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Spatial Sound (windows sonic for headphones, Dolby Atoms for Headphones/ with Astro A50 wireless headset)

Anonymous
2018-02-25T01:23:11+00:00

Hi,

I have a custom built gaming PC with windows 10 64 bit.  My problem is that I cannot enable spatial sound at all. When I click playback devices and properties then spatial sounds. It won't let me click windows sonic for headphones or Dolby Atoms for headphones. When I try to click either setting spatial sound remains off without being able to turn on 7.1 virtual surround sound. I am currently using Astro A50 Gen1 wireless headphones that plug in via optical cable. I'm trying to get 7.1 surround sound (or at least 5.1) through my headset to play PC games.

Can someone help me please?

My PC build:

Motherboard/ Gigabyte Z370 Gaming Board

CPU/ Intel i7 8700k

GPU/ Asus ROG Strix GTX 1080ti 11gb

RAM/ Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8gb) DDR4 Dram 3000MHz

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Devices and drivers

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-02-25T03:05:52+00:00

    They are identical in tests and this is free

    Connect headphones to your PC, right-click the speaker icon in the system tray and then click Spacial sound from the menu. Your options will be either Windows Sonic for Headphones or Dolby Atmos for Headphones. Choose the latter, and you'll open the Dolby Access page in the Windows Store to download the free app, which you then use to buy the license for Dolby Atmos -- or start the 30-day free trial. The license lets you use Dolby Atmos on 10 devices, including an Xbox One.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-02-25T03:23:50+00:00

    Hi,

    That option isn't available for me. The only thing that shows when I do that is "Speaker setup (UNKNOWN)". I already know that windows has its own spatial sound. The issue is it's not allowing me to enable it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-05-12T06:26:55+00:00

    The issue isnthat if your headset is already setup with surround sound on as default then spatial sound option will gray out becausse it is not needed. If you change headset to stereo then spatial sound will hecome available. This is what happened with noth my asus strix dsp and logitech g430 headsets. I do not know if the a50s have the option to be stereo and if so i am guessing you wiill jave ronuninstall any drivers for them and use windows default. Logitech's software made the g430 surround sound and uninstalling that made them stereo amd spatial option of windows available.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-02-25T03:36:39+00:00

    What free app?

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-02-25T03:03:06+00:00

    Microsoft has its own spatial sound, but it works only with headphones. It's called Windows Sonic for Headphones. try that.

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