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| Kaizar said: Thanks for the info. The 3DS in System Settings has a setting for Surround Sound, and so did certain DS games from such years as 2005, like Mario Kart DS. The Wii U GamePad controller is describe to do 6.0 speaker sound, so I had assume the 3DS was the same way. The Music Player App pre-install on the 3DS also has Surround Sound option, which is default setting in both System Settings & Music Player App. Well, the Surround Sound does sound really great in my experience, but I have never tried multi-speaker headphones. Some of my favorite Surround Sounds come from Zelda Ocarina of Time 3D & Thor (3DS) & Dillon's Rolling Western. The Headphones most likely convert, but why is there a setting in both System Settings & Music Player for Surround Sound & Stereo & Mono, if there's no multi-speaker sound thru earphone jack? Anyways, my headphones does say it converts 5.1 & up into 7.1 and that it converts stereo into 7.1 speaker sound, and the full frontal sounds work like 100% perfection, like you are actually there. I just know the Surround Sound sounds great, except in a few games were they play in 2 speaker only, even though I got the headphones on. (specifically New Super Mario Bros. 2 & Shinobi 3DS & Mighty Switch Force 1 & 2. But Mutant Mudds has Surround Sound type of audio) |
It's virtual surround. Over stereo jacks you can do pro-logic or pro-logic II, but as far as I know 3DS titles don't use it. I assume the virtualized surround sound is also send over the earphone jack. Music however can have pro-logic encoding mixed in already.
Virtual surround sound can be convincing at times. You can read about it here: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/virtual-surround-sound.htm It works best with headphones as your ears are always at a known distance from the speakers, but it depends on the source audio how well the conversion works, just as with 2D to 3D video conversion.
