Listening Position option in sound settings

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After the whole situation with Doomtrain EX intermission and countless pulls of Tyrant saying "Show me your foot" in M11S because I turned my camera at the wrong (right?) time, I finally decided to actually test this sound setting.

I'm not convinced that it does anything.

Testing in E8N because it has an immediate and clear voice line right at the start of the fight.
Whether I have the slider at 0 or 100, the voice volume will drop dramatically if I face my camera even slightly away from Shiva.

This is almost the behaviour I would expect from 0 (camera). Shiva is clearly still on my screen but I do understand that my camera is facing away from her, relative to my character.
However when the slider is at 100 (character). I would expect that Shiva would be clearly audible at the same volume regardless of my camera position, given that she is literally touching my character.

I've recorded and posted below.


Am I missing something? What does this option do? It clearly doesn't do what I thought it does.

I was half considering posting this as a bug but I really don't know what to think about it.

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