YouTube Spatial Audio Test Demo

This video lets you test your sound system to see how it handles spatial audio from YouTube VR videos.

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[philipskora]

For anyone wondering, your spatial audio is not broken. Youtube has a bug right now where videos on the site don't output spatial audio correctly. To test this, visit a page that has embedded videos. When viewed through embedded videos, spatial audio works. Just have to wait for youtube to fix this...again...

[Psythik]

This is one of the *only* videos I could find on YT that allows me to properly test the soundstage and imaging of audiophile-grade headphones. Thank you for making this; that said, if I may make a suggestion: you should put terms like "surround sound test" and "headphone soundstage" into the title and/or description to make the video easier to find.

[Droneslaught]

this video worked outstandingly for setting up my 7.1 surround levels!

[ratboygirl]

thank you! this was to test the difference between "music mode" and "gaming mode" for my headset, as i couldn't initially tell any if there were any distinctions between the two. turns out there is!

[xfiringsquadx]

Just used this to test the spatial audio on my soundcore motion x600. Mind blown. Thanks.

[senchaholic]

Nothing is happening when I move the video on my iPhone.

[silentblackhole]

This is the best video on YouTube that I've found so far to test spatial audio / surround sound. Thank mate!

[BlastarX]

Actually I have a 7.1 Surround sound system and I can hear the sound coming from the rear speakers as I rotate the image. I never thought that (and I was kind of angry about that) surround sound was possible on YouTube. Thanks for this Video. It just made my day! (night actually)

[tpike]

Works here on iOS and is treated as spatial audio. using Apple headphones such as Beats Fit Pro or AirPods Pro gives you full head tracking capabilities as expected. Interesting!

[danwool]

Noop. Do I need special headphones for this demo? Using standard headphones plugged into a computer, clicking and dragging the image has no effect. The circle moves, but the audio does not. Thx!

[Mr_Battlefield]

This video is working great with Spatial Audio for the Google Pixel Buds Pro. I can either move my head and the sound move. Or I can move my phone around my head and the sound moves.

I'm hoping YouTube Music will start to add Spatial Audio music which can also be Dolby Atmos audio or even be 360 Reality Audio.

[frenkya]

the best surround test on YouTube. THANKS 👍

[VentureVlog]

this is the most cool thing to test spacial audio ever, love it :P

[jesterdude]

Dude that was so cool, I need to find more stuff like this....most of the song with spatial audio, or 8d or whatever only seem to rotate left to right over and over

[CaliforniaTravelVideos]

On my new Puget Systems Windows 11 PC with Arena 9 5.1 (Bluetooth rear speakers), I find:
Your Spatial Audio Test on your above YouTube demo, when dragging the audio icon around the screen horizontally:
- I hear your voice thru the front and rear speakers, but not the center channel
Using the Windows / Sound settings / Speakers / 2- SteelSeries Arena 9 / Format Test:
- I hear the chime move from Left, to Right, to Center, to Subwoofer, to Left Rear, to Right Rear (with all speakers working at same amplitude)
Thus, your Demo does not noticeably fire the Center Speaker or Subwoofer, as compared to the Windows Setting Speaker Test.
Still, I found your explanation and Demo very helpful - many thanks!

[DisgruntledDoomer]

If you ever remake this video, maybe add some guiding lines into the void, so it would be easier to SEE when the sound source is directly on our side & back.

[Solarchicks]

Not only is this crazy, but it's from 2 years ago and I just found out this is a thing. Love it works great with my new headphones

[ExileRika]

Thank you, I needed to test my new Razor Kraken V2 headphones and this worked perfectly <3

[ledocteur]

Thanks, great test to try out the "spatial mode" on my new JBL speakers, It crunches the top frequencies quite a bit compared to "normal mode" so I wanted to see if it was actually worth it.

conclusion, it's definitely worth it.

[linkhyrule]

This is the video that finally let me figure out which of my wireless earbuds was left and which was right.