The headphones will receive true 8-channel surround audio. They present as a real 7.1 or 5.1 or 2.0 output to the operating system (you can switch mode via a hardware button).So what's special about HyperX Cloud Orbit S and Audeze Mobius? If you want them, you should buy the HyperX because they're owned by HP/Kingston and have good finances which have allowed them to refine the design to make it more durable than the Audeze variant, and HyperX are also more generous with warranty since they can afford to offer good warranty. They are the exact same product and HyperX bought the design/technology AND manufacturing from Audeze. The only headphones that can do true 3D surround on Linux are the HyperX Cloud Orbit S and the Audeze Mobius. To get more than that, such as true 7.1 audio, you need a wired USB headset. Wireless 2.4 GHz with custom dongles tops out at around 20 kHz stereo audio, with a ~7-12 kHz microphone input (2 output sinks, 1 input sink). There isn't enough bandwidth (even with a dedicated 2.4 GHz USB dongle) to transmit 8 channels (7.1) via wireless on ANY headset. So on Windows, it routes: Audio -> DTS 7.1 driver (which generates a binaural stereo downmix) -> 2 channel output to headphones.Īnother reason why your headphones aren't a 7.1 output is because they are wireless. The 7.1 is entirely virtual inside Windows 10/11 and is handled by the DTS Headphone driver, through a Windows technology that lets the DTS plugin sit "before" the stereo output and pretend to be a 7.1 output. Those SteelSeries Arctis headphones are a stereo (2-channel) sink. It's not possible on Linux (with your headphones). I've got a windows dual boot where it does work, so if I need to get some info from there that's also possible. They say to use DTS Headphone:X on windows for 7.1 surround, is this not possible on linux? I've tried running SteelSeries Engine under wine but it didn't work out (tried 5.0, 5.4 and 5.8). Playback device is surround71:CARD=S7,DEV=0īroken configuration for playback: no configurations available: Invalid argument $ pasuspender - speaker-test -D surround71:CARD=S7,DEV=0 -c 8 -m FL,FC,FR,RR,RRC,RLC,RL,LFE Setting of hwparams failed: Invalid argument Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 8 channelsĬhannels count (8) not available for playbacks: Invalid argument Resulting in $ pasuspender - speaker-test -D surround71 -c 8 -m FL,FC,FR,RR,RRC,RLC,RL,LFE I've also found this question: How do I configure PulseAudio for 7.1 Surround Sound over HDMI? but I can't seem to run that line for my setup (tried replacing hdmi with surround71, and with a few other things in this list: ) I've changed the default sample channels setting as said here in /etc/pulse/nf, but it didn't seem to change anything. When connecting my Arctis 7, I see in my settings->audio->test only front left and front right speakers.
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