評論

• gamedeal user

  Mar 17, 2016

  TL;DR: Superb sound spacialization through your headphones. Full home theatre experience, even when your household is asleep. Responsive devs. Very inexpensive. I love it - huge recommend! Update 13/Apr/16: Now that I've racked up 160+ hours of usage (which will continue to climb for the foreseeable future), I want to add a quick addendum to my full review below to state straightaway that I've found Spatial Sound Card (SSC) to be nothing short of transformative to my audio experience on PC, and I now use it every day in my short list of "essential" software, with games, films, and music. Once properly set up and paired with quality headphones, and while being fed with good quality audio (not all audio sources are made equal!), the three-dimensional soundstage created by SSC is phenomenal (even with stereo sources, it sounds like you are in a balanced studio with freestanding stereo speakers rather than enclosed in your headphones). Frankly, I was too cautious in my optimism in my initial review, which was only based on ~10 hours of use. In addition, the development team has proven to be responsive, communicative, and willing to incorporate user feedback into their updates. My main criticism, lack of proper documentation, should be resolved any day now according to the devs. At this price, it's an absolute no-brainer - pick it up and try it out. The best surround video game audio I've experienced so far with SSC is Mad Max in 5.1 surround mode, with the SSC "Shanghai" studio preset and the LFE (low frequency effects) turned down a bit to eliminate distortion (depends on your headphones)... the roaring V8 car battles and getting caught in a raging sandstorm make me reminisce of the first time I ever experienced a cranked up 5.1 Dolby loudspeaker system many years ago. The fact that I can experience this late at night with my wife sleeping undisturbed mere feet away makes me very happy indeed. :) --------------------- Original Review: Warning: Your Mileage May Vary. My results, though, were impressive! I can see why, at this point, there are a number of negative reviews. It's not at all apparent how to set it up properly, I can't find any documentation whatsoever, the various presets give no description as to what they actually do, there are no test sounds built into the program to identify how your settings affect the output and, finally, I imagine the end result may highly depend on your headphones. I really hope the devs correct these aspects, because many users will understandably become lost and go for a refund. But then they'd miss out on what this software can do, and that'd be a shame, because this is a unique little gem. So I opened with the negatives, but what about the positives, which I feel won out? Well, I've persisted with this software past the point of no refunds, and I've finally gotten it setup properly (I think), and the net result is that *the soundscape being played through my headphones sounds much more 3-dimensional than it did without this software*. In fact, my headphones sound more "surround" than they've ever done (in 16 years!), apart from when listening to binaural recordings. In the end, it actually does what it says on the tin, provided you can get it working. First, my hardware setup is almost custom-tailored for good results with this program. My headphones are a very loved set of Sennheiser HD600s paired with a small Headroom headphone amplifier plugged directly into the "Line Out" (not headphone jack!) of my (meh) Realtek onboard soundcard (Windows 7 64 OS). Straight away, I experienced the "garbled sound" effect that many have complained of. On my system, as with most I assume, I had to manually select my audio output device and make sure it was in WASAPI mode. If you don't know your WASAPI from your ASIO, then maybe you didn't take audio engineering courses in university like I did... and that's why some documentation would be useful! Anyhow... this fixed my garbled sound issue. Next, I chose a preset... I have no idea what the difference between the different "city" themes are yet, but I've settled on "Dubai" for the present, chose the EQ preset for Sennheiser HD600s (very handy if you have a pair of the headphones with built-in eq presets), and then lowered the LFE (low frequency effects) knob by a fair bit (numeric values would be more useful than a knob) because the default LFE was creating audio distortion in my headphone amp. I've tried two games with excellent surround sound to properly test everything: Portal 2 and Alien: Isolation. And the litmus test was that I could walk into an area with a clear directional sound source, close my eyes, and tell more-or-less exactly where it was at as I walked around in-game. It was much better than the built-in positional audio from the standard "headphones" audio settings of the games. And in the end, that's what counts. Also, I spent ~£5 for this software on sale, so I think it's important to maintain a little perspective. I'm definitely going to get my fiver's worth out of it. Heck, I'd pay that just to experiment with this software and encourage developers in trying to make cool audio tech. This wasn't a snap to setup and use, and I doubt it'd be all that great with poor headphones, so you'll have to weigh your own circumstances up when considering the purchase: do you have good headphones, and are you willing to tweak and experiment to dial in your settings? If so, I reckon this gives pretty impressive results.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 27, 2016

  If you have good sources, this software is nothing short of incredible. It takes surround input and gives you realistic headphone stereo. This isn't like the other headphone-surround tools I have used (Razer, etc), which produce an overly clinical sound. SSC uses room virtualization to make the sound echo from one speaker around the room, which takes the realism to a much higher level. I have primarily tested this with Rainbow Six Siege and Mad Max. In R6 this has allowed me to quite accurately kill people through walls based on sound positioning. That is how good this really is. SSC does have some technical issues for me, namely the sound 'popping.' This gets less significant over time, but it sounds really bad when testing immediatly after launching the program. In the five minutes it takes to actually get ingame the pops generally recede to an ignorable level.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 6, 2017

  I'm not an audiophile and I can't really give a detailed description on how this software improves the audio quality of my sennheiser PX 100 headphones. I'm using H81MHV3 onboard soundcard for audio output leaving out the realtek software on default. I've used the [url=http://www.newaudiotechnology.com/en/products/spatial-sound-card/]SSC Pro trial[/url] from their website for about three months. I got used to how music was so much better with it, though I only have stereo mp3 and FLAC; I can only say that I like what I hear so I ended up purchasing it when summer sale came. The software does not upmix stereo sounds into 5.1 or 7.1. If you want to use surround sound settings on a game/movie/music, you should see to it that the source's sound output is set to 5.1 or 7.1. I've been using SSC to output Dota 2 virtual 5.1 surround sound for my stereo headphones for some time now and the difference is really noticeable. I've also tried it for movies with 3F2R/LFE(5.1) audio channel; I've mostly experimented with isolating L R C LFE LS RS speaker sounds and can confirm that it works. I've encountered some issue while gaming and using it along with a VoIP service(discord) but they do have a solution for it in the community hub. For a demo, you can always download SSC Pro trial from [url=http://www.newaudiotechnology.com/en/products/trial-versions/]New Audio Technology[/url], install it and hear the difference.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 1, 2018

  Spatial Sound Card is the perfect fit with Player Unknown Battlegrounds. All of my squad mates are using it and I continue to recommend it to anyone who enjoys Battle Royal type games. One of the best damn purchases I've ever made on Steam <3
• jacksonsprite

  Feb 4, 2021

  ive played over 1000 hours of this in less than 4 months. safe to say i recommend this.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 30, 2017

  An effective software, very suitable for music and gaming. Remeber to close any software that might using the speraker in the background when install e.g Wallpaper engine.