Article: SURROUND SOUND SYSTEM MAPS OUT ROOM


United Press International
09-30-2004
Surround sound system maps out room

LOS ANGELES, Sep 30, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- A surround sound home theater system has been developed that maximizes the effect for as many as eight locations in a room.

In an average size room, the surround sound system generally would go to the listener in the middle, while everyone else would hear special effects that sound far away or out of place.

But a new system called MultEQ developed by Chris Kyriakakis and his colleagues at Audyssey Laboratories, Inc., uses data from a microphone placed by the listener in any one of the listening locations. The home-theater receiver calibrates by ...

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