Xbox One Stereo Headset and Surround Sound

O think no the reason why their are no official surround sound headsets is because the spdif currently doesn't support surround sound, only stereo. Be a bit of a waste (and a possible legal nightmare) to release surround sound headsets, if the Xbox One
can currently in not do stereo.

You still need to purchase a headset that has surround sound available on it. The Xbox is not able to make a stereo headset give surround sound. Hope this helps!

IRB, I'm really not trying to offend anyone here, but if my question was that simple then why would I use somewhere near 300 words to ask it? Therefore, there's more underlying my question than a textbook definition as things are never simple.

The word "stereo" applies to the majority of gaming headsets, but all of those headsets are capable of producing simulated surround sound due to the way they receive the translated signals from the Xbox. (Surround Sound Processors/ RF Transmitters. broken
record here.)

For Example,

Turtle Beach was convinced that their XO Seven headset would provide Surround Sound. Before they were forced to change it their website said of the XO Seven, “Be surrounded. Cinematic Surround Sound for your
games and entertainment.” The XO Seven is a Stereo Headset capable of producing simulated surround sound. But never once, even now, does Turtle Beach describe this headset with the word "stereo." This is because the word "stereo" can be misleading,
and would not sell. Yet, Microsoft uses the word "stereo" to describe the piece of hardware that the TB XO Seven is supposed to be paired with. The result is confusion because those two never reconcile.

Surround Sound TB XO Seven + Stereo Headset Adapter = ?

There's not a lot of clarity with that is there?

www.gamerawr.com/.../xbox-one-headsets-surround-sound-adapters-fact-fiction

Just because they're a stereo headset doesn't mean they can't do surround sound. I've had Astro A40s and a Sennheiser PC360. Both are stereo headsets, but the Astro mixamp converts the Dolby Digital 5.1 signal that comes out of the Xbox 360 optical into
Dolby headphone which is a simulated surround sound using a stereo headset. My Yamaha home cinema amp had a similar thing but proprietary to Yamaha called Silent Cinema. Both are surprisingly effective.

The question then becomes what sound format will the XBox One output to the controller? If it's one of these simulated surround sound options then you'll be fine with a stereo headset.

This is taken from a forum reply on Reddit:

Rumor is the XO Seven (and possibly the XO Four too) will "output" at 5.1 surround sound. I use "output" in quotation marks as no headset outputs at surround sound, it just mimics the experience. Case in point:

www.turtlebeach.com/.../index.php

Due to this, Polk is advertising the 4 Shot as your standard stereo headset that utilizes digital signal processing (DSP) to provide a surround sound like experience.

Sounds like both are using a simulated surround sound algorithm, I don't think the XO7 has multiple drivers.

Apparently both the XO4 and XO7 are both tuned for stereo and surround sound. But it seems that it's Microsoft who are currently restricting surround sound.

These headsets get the game sound by just connecting to the headset adapter and the controller. No connection to the console is needed. These headsets will accept whatever signal is sent to them from the controller, at the moment, Microsoft is limiting that
to just stereo. If Microsoft update to send surround sound, then these headsets are ready for that.

Hopefully that makes sense