Netflix bows spatial audio for stereo playback devices

Would like you could hear spatial audio from Netflix videos on your headphones or stereo playback program? Now you can, thanks to a new partnership concerning Netflix and Sennheiser.

As of currently, Netflix is giving Sennheiser’s Ambeo 2-channel Spatial Audio tech on pick out titles, these as the most current time of Stranger Things. You can knowledge Ambeo-powered spatial audio on Netflix using any two-channel playback device, such as soundbars, headphones, Television set speakers, and stereo receivers. 

Netflix previously features a large range of titles in Dolby Atmos, but Sennheiser’s Ambeo tech will allow Netflix customers without the need of an Atmos-geared up Tv set, soundbar, or household theater method to enjoy the sonic gains of spatial audio.

Roughly 20 Netflix titles are now obtainable with Ambeo 2-Channel Spatial Audio, like Stranger Matters, Pink Observe, The Witcher, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and other Netflix originals. You can see the entire listing by looking for “spatial audio” in the Netflix app.

In accordance to a Sennheiser push release, Ambeo 2-Channel Spatial Audio can be altered by the sound mixers for numerous titles, allowing for them to implement distinctive degrees of processing to the audio in accordance to the demands of the scene. 

Stranger Points sound mixer Mark Paterson, for example, claimed he was equipped to “recreate” the way that Vecna’s voice “wraps all-around you” in the show’s Dolby Atmos blend employing Sennheiser’s Ambeo spatial audio tech.

A Netflix assist web site notes that Netflix spatial audio will get the job done on any streaming system and with “all units,” devoid of the will need for encompass speakers. That mentioned, you will need to make guaranteed that your Tv or other audio machines doesn’t default to 5.1-channel audio playback if that transpires, the spatial audio tracks will be disabled.