Question What is the difference between surround sound and spatial sound?

[JohnM2]

I have in the windows sound icon a spatial sound tab and has Windows Sonic and DTS x, can someone explain what is the difference between spatial and surround sound and how to enable it

 

[hotaru.hino]

Spatial sound is meant for headphones to mix/simulate how audio actually reaches your ears. An example of this is the Virtual Barber Shop

Surround sound requires separate speakers placed in certain locations so the audio arrives in your ears in the approximate direction the audio is coming from.

 

[JohnM2]

Spatial sound is meant for headphones to mix/simulate how audio actually reaches your ears. An example of this is the Virtual Barber Shop

Surround sound requires separate speakers placed in certain locations so the audio arrives in your ears in the approximate direction the audio is coming from.

So Spatial sound is the (virtual surround sound) as its advertised in many high quality headsets?

 

[hotaru.hino]

So Spatial sound is the (virtual surround sound) as its advertised in many high quality headsets?

No. Virtual surround sound is mucking with the stereo signal to give the sensation of a wider "surround" sound stage. An easy way to do this is to offset the phase of the left and right channels.