I’ve never gotten surround sound to work in any Apple device ever. At some point I just accepted that while half a century ago, before anyone had a computer anywhere, people could listen to Pink Floyd albums with 4 discreet audio channels playing to 4 different speakers that would image the sounds in 3D space as designed, but in the tech era, I’m forever stuck with a L and R channel.
I mean, the first thing we should have seen a decade ago was the iMac, with its little stereo output, able to combine whatever external speakers with its internal speakers into a surround array, which should have become more sophisticated with automatic distance & obstruction measurements as time went on. yet still in 2020, an iMac, with a new worlds worth of tech in it, has little more than a 1960s stereo output. Frustrating.
I mean, the first thing we should have seen a decade ago was the iMac, with its little stereo output, able to combine whatever external speakers with its internal speakers into a surround array, which should have become more sophisticated with automatic distance & obstruction measurements as time went on. yet still in 2020, an iMac, with a new worlds worth of tech in it, has little more than a 1960s stereo output. Frustrating.
