Ah but the system you are talking about was a real surround sound system. There were 5 speaekrs around your head, each one has an audio track assigned to it thus you got a true surround sound feel. These things are SRS. Fake simulated surround sound. Stretched stereo. I'd love a life style system or one like the one you are talking about. My brother-in-law has one. Epic!
-----Original Message----- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Gary Wood Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2014 4:00 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Sound bars This sounds like it makes sense. Bose used to have an Accoustomass system that I heard a demonstration of in a store. The sppeakers seemed close together, and I didn't see how it could sound that way, but in the de4mo, it seems like I did hear things behind me and everywhere, it seems. ----- Original Message ----- From: "pete gurney" <p...@gurneyfamily.org.uk> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2014 9:48 AM Subject: Re: Sound bars > hello all, > > i'm a bit late coming in on this but if you get a really good sound > bar it can be as good as a wired surround sound system. > i have both a sound bar in the front room and a wired surround system > in the dining room they are both made by yamaha and the soundbar > sounds every bit as good as the wired system including you hearing > everything around and behind you. > the soundbar i have is model yamaha ysp40d. > admittedly the normal price of this was £1500 or roughly $2500 but i > got it when it was being replaced with a newer model so got it for > £500 roughly > $830 but it is a very impressive bit of equipment. > it is about 40 inches long and has 42 individual speakers in it which > fire off the sound in all different directions. > when you set it up you plug a microphone in to it on a long lead and > place it level with the centre of the tv screen and 6 to 8 feet away > then tell it to auto setup and go out of the room and close the door. > from outside it sounds like something from the movie close encounter > of the third kind as you can hear all these odd sounds being bounced > off of every surface in the room. > when it's finished it has programmed all the speakers to give off > their sound fractions of seconds apart bouncing the sound off of the > walls, ceiling, and furniture to give you a full surround effect. > when it sets itself up it can even tell weather you have soft > furnishing and carpets in the room and takes this into account. > it also has a mass of different connections which means you could > have 10 or 12 pieces of equipment all connected to it at the same time. > i prefer this sound bar to the wired systems as obviously it's neater > and you don't need to run wires everywhere, but i do think you need to > get a sound bar that has this type of auto setup with multi speakers in it. > i've seen several over the last 5 years since i got mine that have > this capability but not with as many speakers but they have also been > at a much more reasonable price. > > pete. > > > >
