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Surround with Fewer Speakers

Authors: Dodd, Mark; Oclee-Brown, Jack

AES Conference: UK 21st Conference: Audio at Home · Paper 12 · April 2006

Abstract

In recent years the experience of watching a movie at home has been transformed from ‘watching the TV’ to ‘experiencing Home Cinema’ by the use of multichannel sound to envelope the listener and provide a more absorbing experience. Achieving this effect requires more audio channels and more loudspeakers. While in a commercial theatre this is not a problem, in consumer audio the extra wires and loudspeakers may be difficult to reconcile with the domestic environment. It has become desirable to deal with this conflict by reducing the number of loudspeakers while still attempting to convey as much of the additional channel information as possible.

Details

Published in
AES Conference: UK 21st Conference: Audio at Home
Paper number
12
Publication date
April 6, 2006
Session subject
Loudspeakers
Affiliation
KEF Audio (UK) Ltd. (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Conference Paper