Handbook for Sound Engineers

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Surround Sound 1593 45.1 The Origin of Surround Sound The first commercially successful multichannel sound formats were develope ...

1594 Chapter 45 Figure 45-1. 70 mm six-track magnetic was regarded by the film industry as the supreme audio format until the ad ...

Surround Sound 1595 matrixing, wider dynamic range, and what became known as the 5.1-channel configuration. As shown in Fig. 45- ...

1596 Chapter 45 conventional 5.1 playback systems, while cinema owners wishing to take advantage of the extra channel can equip ...

Surround Sound 1597 next decade, home theater was the fastest growing cate- gory of consumer electronics products, and today is ...

1598 Chapter 45 That film sound has been the starting point for 5.1 digital surround in the home has enabled the accumula- tion ...

Surround Sound 1599 Dolby later expanded Pro Logic II technology to derive 7.1 surround (Pro Logic IIx, above), while competing ...

1600 Chapter 45 What has been needed is a way to establish a play- back reference level based on the actual measured acoustic ou ...

Surround Sound 1601 demand—the surround experience in ever-increasing numbers, for every possible entertainment medium. Table 45 ...

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Part 7 Measurements ...

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1605 Chapter 46 Test and Measurement by Pat Brown 46.1 Test and Measurement..................................................... ...

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Test and Measurement 1607 46.1 Test and Measurement Technological advancements in the last two decades have given us a variety o ...

1608 Chapter 46 should select the one that best fits their specific needs. As with loudspeakers, there is no clear-cut best choi ...

Test and Measurement 1609 measured at a single point (the microphone position). Sound power measurements must consider all of th ...

1610 Chapter 46 sound levels. Most have at least an A- and C-weighting scale, and some have octave band filters that allow band- ...

Test and Measurement 1611 “The monitor system produced 105 dBA-Slow at the performer’s head position for broadband program.” “T ...