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Article: HOME AUDIO/VIDEO; CATCHING UP WITH CHANGES IN SURROUND-SOUND RECEIVERS
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- February 3, 2002
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One new feature appearing on this year's new models of surround-
sound receivers is THX Ultra 2 certification. What is it and why is
it important? It fully addresses seven-channel surround sound. That's
right: surround-sound systems that use both left and right side
surround speakers and left and right rear surround speakers (in
addition to the left, center and right front speakers around the
video or movie screen) to more fully immerse you into the sonic space
of the program. Before I describe the new certification standards,
which are just the latest in a series of THX standards, I must first
review surround-sound formats this week, then previous THX
certification standards next week.
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