Headphones are just not designed for surround sound. They are not even designed to accurately handle stereo since left sounds are only played in the left ear, and right sounds are only played in the right ear. In normal room stereo, both ears can hear every sound with a timing and volume difference between each ear.

Competitors use DSP (digital signal processing) technologies attempt to compensate for the inherent limitations of headphones. Their challenge is that everyone's ears are as unique as fingerprints and so are the sound signals each person uses to detect the direction of a sound. However, DSP solutions deliver the same signal to everyone. It is like selling the same prescription of glasses to everyone in the world even though we all need our own prescription. DSP methods are unable to accurately deliver all sound sources to both ears for proper directionality processing time, so they delay the sound to the headphones and that reduces your reaction time and game performance. Psyko is the only technology that delivers the vital timing and volume difference to each ear to reproduce "true" surround sound so they sound natural to everyone, with no latency.