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Article: Music to your ears. (Tech.Files [right arrow] Surround Sound).
- Article from:
- Australian PC World
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
- Author:
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The term `surround sound' is commonly used to describe multichannel audio technologies that come primarily from Dolby Laboratories. The bulk of development has been in the field of films, but the fruits of this work are now well entrenched in the home theatre and PC gaming arenas.
Once an expensive proposition, now-affordable Dolby Surround Sound is so commonplace that it has almost become the expected norm. With the greater availability of such an evolving technology comes the inevitable confusion for consumers. The greatest lack of understanding occurs not upon assembly of a home theatre or home gaming sound environment, but when configuring the system for the ...