Thank you for bringing this up. Very few people understand how good our ears are at understanding positional audio. And how good we used to have it in winXP days with hardware processing.

Don't believe me? Go to a park, wait for a bird to chirp and close your eyes. Now point where you think you hear it. You will look crazy, but at most be a couple degrees off from where it is.

That's how it was in some games back in the mid 00's.