Yamaha has detailed the launch of its new YH-L700A flagship headphones, and the presence of noise cancellation isn’t even the most notable feature about it.

Every brand is getting in on the noise cancelling gravy train, and while these headphones support it, they’re going down the less trodden path of 3D audio with Yamaha’s 3D Sound Field with head tracking technology.

The end result sounds similar to the likes of Dolby Atmos Music, Sony’s 360 Reality Audio and Apple’s Spatial Audio, and has much in common Creative’s SXFI technology, whereby it takes a traditional two-channel track and transforms it into a 360-degree sound field with a push of a button.
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