07/01/2026
Our CEO Ville Houttu posted on LinkedIn about spatial audio, open standards, and what we've been building at A-CX for the past two years:
Back in the day, I was a touring musician. Guitar, pedal steel, dobro. Hundreds of club gigs, a handful of albums on Spotify.
While today the real musicians of my family are my kids, I'm back on the field a bit.
Spent the morning at Samsung Research America's audio lab with their audio research team. Samsung and Google co-developed the Eclipsa Audio format through the Alliance for Open Media.
We at A-CX build the plugin that creators use to mix it.
Quick context on why this matters.
Spatial audio used to sit behind expensive studio tools and licensing fees. Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, that world. Eclipsa Audio, built on the open IAMF standard, is royalty-free. Anyone can use it.
→ YouTube already accepts Eclipsa Audio tracks.
→ Samsung's 2025 TV and soundbar lineup plays it natively.
→ The plugin we built exports straight from a DAW into a YouTube-ready file.
For a YouTuber: Real 3D spatial audio for your videos, today, for free, with tools that already exist.
Grateful to Toni and the rest of the Samsung team for the tour and the conversation. Proud to be building the tooling for this.
If you want to try spatial audio without a studio budget, check it out.
👉 Link in comments.
♻️ Many creators don't know this exists. Repost and spread the word.
