Netflix bows spatial audio for stereo playback devices

Want you could listen to spatial audio from Netflix movies on your headphones or stereo playback program? Now you can, thanks to a new partnership in between Netflix and Sennheiser.

As of these days, Netflix is offering Sennheiser’s Ambeo 2-channel Spatial Audio tech on pick titles, this kind of as the most current period of Stranger Things. You can knowledge Ambeo-driven spatial audio on Netflix working with any two-channel playback machine, together with soundbars, headphones, Tv speakers, and stereo receivers. 

Netflix already features a wide assortment of titles in Dolby Atmos, but Sennheiser’s Ambeo tech will permit Netflix users without the need of an Atmos-equipped Tv, soundbar, or home theater system to experience the sonic advantages of spatial audio.

About 20 Netflix titles are now accessible with Ambeo 2-Channel Spatial Audio, like Stranger Points, Purple See, The Witcher, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and other Netflix originals. You can see the whole listing by exploring for “spatial audio” in the Netflix application.

According to a Sennheiser push release, Ambeo 2-Channel Spatial Audio can be modified by the seem mixers for numerous titles, making it possible for them to apply various ranges of processing to the audio according to the demands of the scene. 

Stranger Items audio mixer Mark Paterson, for example, reported he was able to “recreate” the way that Vecna’s voice “wraps all over you” in the show’s Dolby Atmos mix applying Sennheiser’s Ambeo spatial audio tech.

A Netflix aid webpage notes that Netflix spatial audio will function on any streaming system and with “all units,” with out the need to have for encompass speakers. That reported, you are going to need to have to make positive that your Tv or other audio tools doesn’t default to 5.1-channel audio playback if that occurs, the spatial audio tracks will be disabled.