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Can someone explain to me a use case where you would wear headphones but have other music/video on at the same time for you to consume and what the actual benefit would be. Please do it like I am 5 years old.

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jgatieAnswer

Can someone explain to me a use case where you would wear headphones but have other music/video on at the same time for you to consume and what the actual benefit would be. Please do it like I am 5 years old.

I personally see no reason why I would want to group the headphones with other rooms to play music, since headphones by their very nature are a singular experience, and follow you from room to room anyway. I do see the capability to group headphones with a soundbar to play at the same time as an answer to those who have trouble hearing and yet want to watch TV with others in the room who have no disability.

Another use case (one I can give no first hand knowledge of) that some have asked for is playing music while playing video games. There are those who don’t like the Autoplay feature when playing games because they prefer background music to the game audio (that’s if I understand it right. I could be wrong).

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Gaham

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I listen to music on headphones while my wife watched TV. In different circumstances she might use the headphones letting me have the speakers.

What confuses me is that it seems like listening to the TV on headphones would use the Arc, if I had one, so it could not be used to listen music because it is being used to transmit sound to the Ace.

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I listen to music on headphones while my wife watched TV. In different circumstances she might use the headphones letting me have the speakers.

What confuses me is that it seems like listening to the TV on headphones would use the Arc, if I had one, so it could not be used to listen music because it is being used to transmit sound to the Ace.

Got it in one. They are just BT headphones. 😜

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jgatie

Got it in one. They are just BT headphones. 😜

Will you just stop!!? People are asking for serious answers and all you do is offer up sarcasm and stupidity. Just let people answer the questions. Trust me, it won’t take away from your 5,372 sarcastic comments in other threads (as if anything could). Your insistence on injecting your stale humor into every thread is childish and tiresome.

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Gaham

Headliner I

I listen to music on headphones while my wife watched TV. In different circumstances she might use the headphones letting me have the speakers.

What confuses me is that it seems like listening to the TV on headphones would use the Arc, if I had one, so it could not be used to listen music because it is being used to transmit sound to the Ace.

Got it in one. They are just BT headphones. 😜

It certainly seems that way.

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jgatieAnswer

Can someone explain to me a use case where you would wear headphones but have other music/video on at the same time for you to consume and what the actual benefit would be. Please do it like I am 5 years old.

I personally see no reason why I would want to group the headphones with other rooms to play music, since headphones by their very nature are a singular experience, and follow you from room to room anyway. I do see the capability to group headphones with a soundbar to play at the same time as an answer to those who have trouble hearing and yet want to watch TV with others in the room who have no disability.

Another use case (one I can give no first hand knowledge of) that some have asked for is playing music while playing video games. There are those who don’t like the Autoplay feature when playing games because they prefer background music to the game audio (that’s if I understand it right. I could be wrong).

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Can someone explain to me a use case where you would wear headphones but have other music/video on at the same time for you to consume and what the actual benefit would be. Please do it like I am 5 years old.

I personally see no reason why I would want to group the headphones with other rooms to play music, since headphones by their very nature are a singular experience, and follow you from room to room anyway. I do see the capability to group headphones with a soundbar to play at the same time as an answer to those who have trouble hearing and yet want to watch TV with others in the room who have no disability.

You won’t be able to listen to headphones and the Arc at the same time though. While I agree this would be a nice feature, it isn’t going to be available, and least anytime soon.

Along the same lines, this would be useful if someone was watching TV outside of the atmos audio sweet spot, such as a side chair or something, while others were in the sweet spot. The side chair person could hear proper atmos through headphones.

My use where I would want to be playing TV audio through soundbar while headphones play music is in my gameroom/home office. There are times where kids are playing video games that I don’t want to hear, and I’d like to listen to music instead. In this case though, I would need to use bluetooth audio for the music, since Ace can’t directly get wifi audio...and because the soundbar in that room is a Beam 2. Honestly, if no one was using TV audio at the time, I may still opt for headphones as the desk is not in the atmos sweet spot, and I would like to easily switch to computer audio or phone audio when needed.

Not the end of the world, but a feature I was looking forward to.

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Can someone explain to me a use case where you would wear headphones but have other music/video on at the same time for you to consume and what the actual benefit would be. Please do it like I am 5 years old.

I personally see no reason why I would want to group the headphones with other rooms to play music, since headphones by their very nature are a singular experience, and follow you from room to room anyway. I do see the capability to group headphones with a soundbar to play at the same time as an answer to those who have trouble hearing and yet want to watch TV with others in the room who have no disability.

Another use case (one I can give no first hand knowledge of) that some have asked for is playing music while playing video games. There are those who don’t like the Autoplay feature when playing games because they prefer background music to the game audio (that’s if I understand it right. I could be wrong).

Both of those make some sense.

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Stanley_4

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With my hearing issues I was really hoping for both the ability to work with the Arc (both playing) and individual channel volume controls so I could boost the center channel.

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Airgetlam

I don’t think you could call two speakers (right ear, left ear) ‘proper’ Atmos, by definition.

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Stanley_4

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Given the audio magic you can pull off with a DSP I’d not be surprised to hear a set of single speaker headphones being able to fake surround sound.

Keep in mind your ear doesn’t hear multiple speakers or directions, it just processes the sound entering your ear canal and that can be tweaked to imitate about anything.

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