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Maxpayne27xx
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Headsets 7.1

Does a 7.1 surround headsets works properly with the 5.1 sound for the pro members, either way connected to the controller or directly to the pc? HyperX Cloud Revolver, this model specific

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BinaryJay
Gold Stadia Guide
Gold Stadia Guide

You can't get 5.1 surround sound using a 3.5mm headphone jack, that is stereo only no matter how you cut it.  The "7.1" on that model headset is just simulated using the USB adapter it comes with, it's still just a two channel headset.  You won't be able to use the USB adapter with the Stadia controller.  If using PC and Chrome, and that USB adapter is properly set up in windows to expose itself as a 7.1 (or 5.1) audio system, I believe Stadia should map the 5.1 channels as needed to the exposed channels that windows sees.

As for connecting the Stadia controller, you can plug it in a USB port or you can just use it wirelessly by punching in the Stadia controller code when prompted just like using it with a Chromecast.

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Devilery
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Not apologizing for resurrecting this thread since it appears in a current Google search for my very similar question. Headsets like the one you linked have an audio device hard-wired into their USB cable, which is the 7.1 audio device. However that one is a VIRTUAL 7.1 headset, which means that the little audio device in the headset cable probably just adds Dolby or DTS surround sound virtualization to the same ol' two-channel input. So this means that if you pull the padding back on this kind of headset, you'll find only one speaker is wired into each headphone. It's just using software to try and simulate surround sound (which isn't complete BS, btw — after all, we do manage to position sound with just our two ears, but saying an ear is just a microphone is a gross-oversimplification. I'm digressing though...)

However, as of now, six months since the original question was posted, there is another, actually more affordably-priced, headset which is an actual TRUE 7.1 headset. This means that there are actually several, independently-wired speakers in each cup of the headphones. It has "[...] eight independent [audio] drivers" which means that the headset's audio device is actually receiving surround sound audio channels and passing them along to you — at no point is it being reduced to two channels.

This again, like the model you linked to, has a little audio device built into the headset's cable. But this device is an actual surround sound audio device, not a 2-channel device that has some sort of virtual-surround DSP.

Note that the headset also works with the PS4, due to the fact that it's just registering as a surround sound audio device when you plug it into a USB port.

Therefore I would actually say there's a very good chance that you should be able to achieve surround sound with this on Stadia, assuming you play it on PC using the browser. I'm pretty sure I'm going to buy the headset above and I'll definitely be trying this out. I would not be shocked if it turned out this can work with some Android devices too, assuming you are able to connect the headset via some USB-C hub with USB ports. This headset in particular unfortunately doesn't seem to support macOS, but if one like this did, then you should be able to also have surround sound on macOS that way.

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Maxpayne27xx
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Stadia Player

Name and model please

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