Spatial sound is an enhanced immersive audio experience where sounds can flow around you, including overhead, in three-dimensional virtual space. Spatial sound provides an enhanced atmosphere which traditional surround sound formats cannot. With spatial sound, all your movies and games will sound better.

Should you use Windows spatial sound?

Sound can be inaccurate: This spatial sound software only works well in certain situations. It works well with gaming and movies, but can cause audio to sound inaccurate when primarily used for music. Not for speakers: Unsurprisingly, Windows Sonic for Headphones only works well with headphones.

What does spatial sound do?

Spatial audio allows listeners to step out of a windowed vantage point and into an immersive, emulation of real-world sound. … Then there’s “Ambisonics” that provides a sphere of sound centered around the listener. There are spatial virtualizers, technologies that project sound into a virtual acoustic space.