Context: I told a friend to listen to Daft Punk‘s RAM because he had never heard the album before. After recommending to use a pair of headphones he‘s proceeded to tell me that he was actually listening on his tablet. The headphones in question are the AKG K371s. Marketing does what marketing does I suppose?!
I don't know... Depends. Let me explain. I have proper Dolby Atmos setup 7.2.4 (4 speakers in-ceiling) and it's awesome. Impossible to achieve with headphones but I have to say, Airpods Pro 2 are very good and you can enjoy movie a lot with Spatial Audio on. But what totally blew me away was speakers on my 16" M1 Macbook Pro. I watched a bit of Stranger Things which supports Spatial Audio through Safari and holy s*it. It sounds pretty good and I honestly couldn't believe what I'm hearing. Not sure if iPad tablet or other tablet can do something similar but those sound engineers are doing some cool stuff lately.
Its as other said, sure great headphones are great but great speakers are too, and my samsung tablet speakers always surprise me everytime i play something on it