Instructions for turning on Spatial Sound on Windows 11 to enjoy vivid sound

Spatial Sound is an advanced audio feature on Windows 11, allowing you to experience virtual surround sound from common output devices such as headphones or speakers. Spatial Sound helps you feel the space and direction of sound, creating a vivid and realistic feeling.

What is Spatial Sound?

When Spatial Sound is turned on and connected to a recording device and speaker, you will hear sounds that help you locate your position in 3D space easily. In addition, this application also gives you a unique and outstanding surround sound feeling.

Spatial Sound surround helps reproduce sound from different directions around you, helping you experience more realistic sound than Stereo sound with only two left and right channels.

When you use headphones and enable Spatial Sound, you will experience virtual spatial sound because this feature mixes the sound. When you listen to music or play games, sound is sent to your headphones to help you know which direction the sound is coming from.

Instructions for turning on Spatial Sound on Windows 11

Step 1: Press the Windows + R key combination to open the Run dialog box > Type Control Panel > Press Enter

Step 2: Set View by to Large icons > Select Sound.

Step 3: On the Playback tab, select the audio device for which you want to enable Spatial Sound > Click Properties

Step 4: Switch to the Spatial Sound tab > Click the drop-down menu and select the Spatial Sound format you want to use, for example Windows Sonic for Headphones or Dolby Atmos for Headphones.

Step 5: Click Apply to save the changes, then click OK.

After making the changes, your audio device will use Spatial Sound.

Epilogue

Like any other audio feature, Spatial Sound can greatly enhance your listening experience – and it's easy to enable on your Windows PC. Good luck!