Headset settings with Dolby Atmos Soundbar

David Buitrago1 · Jul 17, 2022

Hi everyone.

I recently bought a Dolby Atmos Soundbar and sounds amazing with a lot of games, no lag or input problems so far. But recently I bought Hell Let Loose and is a game you have to use a lot of chat to really enjoy it. I really never did that before, so I'm pretty new on headset settings, I have a regular JBL 3.5mm regular headsets, nothing fancy.

So I have 2 questions.

Q1: How do I set the headset for hearing only the players and not the game? Don't want to hear two audio sources.

Q2: I've been noticing that every time I plug the headset the Dolby Atmos light on my soundbar goes off. So I will lose that feature if I plug a regular headset on the controller?

:)

Grimsupanoob

Hi There

With you purchasing the soundbar that supports Atmos, the hardware will tell the console that it is supported (and you ahve changed your output method to Bitstream out, for the soundbar)

As for the Headsets, Dolby requires that you purchase the Atmos app to enable atmos on the headset.

Monkey Raver

I don't think thats gonna work because it's about Dolby Atmos on a headset and not on a soundbar, my soundbar is an LG by the way, model number SL8YG, works perfectly in every way except when playing Xbox when it's passing through the TV, Dolby Atmos will
only work on the Xbox when passing directly through the soundbar

Avenge El Chapo

Hey so I will say, I have tested this with an HT-7000 as well as an LG S95QR, and the issue with centre channel audio/subwoofer not working is an issue exclusively with the Samsung soundbars.

I have an LG G2 OLED, and it’s e-Arc port might have changed if you have say a C1 or CX, but I have no issues with lipsync/audio delay on these TV’s when the tv settings, Xbox and soundbar settings are correct (lag is indistinguishable from 7.1 uncompressed). Sometimes it is a result of the TV though and it’s e-Arc port/processing, so the Sharc V2 by ThenAudio is a device that you would have to add if your still experiencing audio delay issues.

First thing of order though is getting a viable Atmos soundbar for Atmos gaming, which the Samsungs at the moment are not. From My understanding, there are different “types” of Dolby Atmos, just like there are different types of Dolby Vision (such as Low Latency Dolby Vision/LLDV, and regular Dolby Vision). The Q930B doesn’t support every Atmos format.

Last years Samsung soundbars had the same issue. They could use Dolby MAT (Blue Ray version of Dolby Atmos), and it wasn’t until the 2022 soundbars that they fixed this. Now, this years soundbars don’t support LPCM Atmos, or Dolby Mat 2.0. You can see this issue actually present on the soundbar, if you go into a non-Atmos game on your Xbox (when set to Dolby Atmos for Home Theatre), and you check the information on the soundbar it displays as “Multi-Channel PCM” rather than “Dolby Audio”. It’s an issue with the soundbars not supporting enough audio formats essentially, and it downconverts it to another channel, causing issues.

Kathy A.

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Kathy A.

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Headset settings with Dolby Atmos Soundbar