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SURROUND SOUND EXPLAINED * PART 1
Surround sound in one form or another has been a part of the film industry for
many years, but the emergence of affordable digital technology has now pushed
it into the domestic mainstream. Hugh Robjohns begins SOS's definitive guide
to surround and its implications for the hi-tech musician.
I think it would be a pretty safe bet to assume that everyone
reading this will have some idea of what surround sound is all
about. After all, it has been with us in various guises since the
production of Walt Disney's Fantasia in the 1940s, and the
hype 'surrounding' its recent incarnations (excuse the pun) is
very hard to overlook, both in professional and consumer
circles. Nevertheless, just to make sure we are all talking
about the same thing, by surround sound I refer to a means of
audio reproduction that involves more than two speakers --
that is, something beyond conventional stereo, requiring four, five, six or more
loudspeakers positioned around the listener at specific locations.
You might already have had some contact with surround sytems in a domestic
environment, in the form of a four-channel Dolby Pro Logic-equipped video system, or even
a five- or six-channel DVD video 'home theatre' setup. However, with the recent publication
of the