Dolby Advanced Audio v2

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Dolby Advanced Audio v2 improves PC audio with technologies that maintain volume levels, prevent distortion, and even create a surround sound experience.

Dolby Advanced Audio v2 benefits

Authentic Dolby Surround Sound

Dolby® Advanced Audio™ v2 converts your music and other two-channel (stereo) entertainment into 5.1-channel surround sound, and your 5.1-channel entertainment like movies into 7.1-channel sound. 

Distortion-free performance

Dolby Advanced Audio v2 optimizes audio performance for your specific PC model and lets you turn up the volume without distorting the sound.

Consistent volume levels

The Volume Leveler feature in Dolby Advanced Audio v2 locks in your preferred volume level for more consistent listening.

Total audio control

A ten-band graphic equalizer in Dolby Advanced Audio v2 provides you with complete control over your PC's audio profile.

A new level of audio performance

Your current PC may be faster and sleeker than its predecessor, but it probably doesn't sound any better. The small speakers and modest amplifier can do only so much for your music or the movies and TV shows you watch in your downtime.

Dolby Advanced Audio v2 addresses the shortcomings of PC audio with technologies that provide crisp, clear surround sound over a PC's built-in speakers and improve the clarity of connected headphones, too.

Dolby Advanced Audio v2 borrows from the pioneering work Dolby engineers have done in the cinema and the home theater. The result is a suite of technologies that PC makers can build directly into their products to elevate audio performance and provide you with a more enjoyable listening experience overall.

The challenge of PC audio

Understanding how Dolby Advanced Audio v2 works requires understanding the problems inherent in PC audio. These originate in both the quality of the source material and the playback process.

Typical problems with sources include:

  • Dull sound and unintelligible dialogue on user-generated content
  • Wildly varying volume levels from one source to the next
  • Content not produced in surround sound

The small speakers and underpowered amplifiers required to fit into the physical design of PCs create other problems. These include:

  • Irregular frequency response with no highs or lows
  • Unnatural, colored sound
  • Volume levels that are typically not loud enough
  • Distortion and annoying mechanical vibrations when sound is turned up

The Dolby Advanced Audio v2 solution

Designed into a PC, Dolby Advanced Audio v2 first applies processing that fixes any problems with the source material. It then fixes playback issues by compensating for mechanical constraints of the PC itself.

Because Dolby engineers custom-tune each PC model that includes Dolby Advanced Audio v2, the audio processing ensures that you enjoy optimal sound for the specific combination of speakers and amplifier in your PC.

Dolby Advanced Audio v2 technologies:

  • Use our latest and most advanced algorithms
  • Draw on our extensive research into how people perceive sound
  • Match human audio perception
  • Are built on a common processing framework
  • Work together intelligently
 

Dolby Advanced Audio v2 for PC manufacturers

The technologies in Dolby Advanced Audio v2 work together to correct a number of problems that affect PC sound.
 

Enable a better experience

Surround decoder

The surround decoder in Dolby Advanced Audio v2 creates a surround sound experience by converting two-channel stereo audio into 5.1 channels and converting 5.1-channel audio into 7.1 channels.

Graphic equalizer

Dolby Advanced Audio v2’s ten-band graphic equalizer lets consumers tailor audio to their exact specifications using high-quality general filtering.

Volume maximizer

Useful for any type of content, volume maximizer boosts the audio signal by as much as 12 dB so users can turn up the volume without causing noise or clipping.

Volume leveler

No one enjoys unwelcome volume fluctuations. Volume leveler maintains a user’s preferred volume across all content and applications.

Surround virtualizer for built-in speakers

Surround virtualizer for built-in speakers creates a surround sound experience of stereo or multichannel content over a PC’s built-in speakers.

Audio optimizer and regulator

Audio optimizer improves the frequency response of a PC’s built-in speakers, and audio regulator eliminates or reduces noise caused by the combination of overdriven speakers and amplifiers.

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Compare Dolby Advanced Audio v2 features

Dolby Advanced Audio v2 is one of two Dolby technology suites that are part of the Dolby PC Entertainment Experience v4. Dolby Home Theater® v4 is designed for multimedia PCs and adds features for connecting to a home theater system.

 

FEATURE

DOLBY HOME THEATER V4

DOLBY ADVANCED AUDIO V2

Dolby Surround
   

Surround expansion (surround decoder)

Surround virtualizer for headphones

 

Surround virtualizer for built-in speakers

Dolby Digital output

 
PC tuning and optimization
   

Built-in speaker tuning (audio optimizer)

Built-in speaker distortion prevention (audio regulator)

Equalization
   

Graphic equalizer

Intelligent (real-time) equalizer

 

Dialogue enhancer

 
Volume
   

Volume leveler

Volume maximizer

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