
Love it or hate it, spatial audio is the next frontier for music listeners. Apple has found a way to bring it to both its AirPods Pro and AirPods Max headphones. Sony and JBL can do it in their respective flagship products, too, but that still leaves a huge swath of headphones that simply can’t listen to spatial audio music.
Karlheinz Brandenburg, known most famously for his work in developing the MP3 format for lossy audio compression, has plans to change that.