Why can't I hear the center channel for this audio clip?

[jamess27630903]

I exported the audio from a scene in Premiere to Audition, and when I play the clip, I hear every track except for the center one. As you can see from the image, there is a waveform in the center channel and it is appearing in the levels panel. Is this a problem with my speakers? I can hear the clip fine when I'm just playing the audio track from Premiere, so I don't think it's that. Any help would be appreciated.

Link to file: The_Force_Awakens_-_BLU-RAY_t00 Audio Extracted Audio Extracted_2.wav - Google Drive

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

Can we see a screen-grab of your audio channel mapping in Preferences, and also how your audio hardware is set up in Audio Hardware? And come to that, what audio hardware are you using?

[Ali23351064wwv5]

airpods

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

Actually I've just realised that the reason is pretty obvious. You are playing the file in Waveform view, and in that view only channels marked L or R will play. If you put it into Multitrack view in a 5.1 session, you will hear more of it.

[AlexKor3945]

The problem is that people are most likely using headphones, which don't let them map left and right channels to the center one. And that's the problem I still have. I can't play any more than stereo using my headphones.

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

That's not the job of headphones - that's the job of the Surround panner in Multitrack view. Headphones, if fed correctly with binaurally-encoded content, will provide you with way more than mere stereo will!