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Curious About DTS Headphone:X? Get Your Demo Here

Bob Ankosko  |  Jul 17, 2015

To coincide with the release of the sci-fi thriller Ex Machina on Blu-ray, DTS has posted clips featuring a DTS Headphone:X sound mix. Pull out your best headphones, jack them into your computer, and enter into the world of artificial intelligence.

The clips are preceded by a convincing round-the-room “speaker callout” that moves through 11 speaker positions, including four height channels.

Click here for the demo and let us know what you think.

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Submitted by Coldsnap on July 17, 2015 - 8:28am

Sounds like regular old stereo to me. Sennheiser RS 185

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Submitted by germay0653 on July 17, 2015 - 8:52am

I honestly couldn't tell the difference between front and rear or height and normal channels.

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Submitted by jjster6 on July 17, 2015 - 10:07am

Meh... I could hear the difference in the channels but it was subtle. Didn't really impress me.

I was just listening with a pair of Apple earbuds. I'll try again later with my Onkyo headphones but I'm not expecting much. I wouldn't go out of my way or spend any extra money for this.

But please don't stop trying. I would pay for this if they could get better separation.

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Submitted by On The Beach on July 17, 2015 - 12:27pm

I listened with Sennheiser HD 558 headphones.

Sadly it does not live up to the hype. It seems to work better with your eyes closed but that defeats the object of using it with movies.

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Submitted by hk2000 on July 17, 2015 - 3:57pm

I listened with a cheap AKG headphones, I could localize the channels in the channel announcements clip, but the actual movie clips did not have any thing other than good old stereo! and I agree, very unimpressive.

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Submitted by dickson1701 on July 17, 2015 - 5:08pm

The dts listen set up sound pretty good, you can actually hear the sound coming for different direction. But the scene from the movie has no special effect or sound to hear any different than normal stereo. Probably with a better movie clip like planet of the apes with apes jumping and screaming all over the place you can hear the difference.

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Submitted by Ovation123 on July 18, 2015 - 7:52pm

B&W P5 (v1) through Schiit Modi 2 Uber DAC and Magni 2 Uber headphone amp. The setup demo made the various channels appear reasonably well "in space" but the two film clips did not take advantage of the tech to be compelling. Sounded no different than the Yamaha Silent Cinema setting for headphones (caveat: I have limited experience with the Yamaha setting as it is extremely rare for me to listen to movies via headphones in the main cinema rig--none of my other listening options offers any kind of pseudo MCH presentation for headphones). Slightly more spacious than straight stereo, but very subtle.

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Submitted by gnagus on July 19, 2015 - 9:12am

Is this an audio track on the bluray, like the Dolby headphone track on the Terminator 2 Ultimate Edition DVD?

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