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stereophonic sound |
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stereophonic sound, sound recorded simultaneously through two or more electronic channels. For live recordings, microphones are placed in different positions relative to the sound source. The recorded sound is played back through loudspeakers placed more or less as the recording microphones were placed. The resulting sound does not emanate from a point source, but instead the voices or instruments composing the sound seem to be spread out as they would be naturally. Thus, some of the ambience of the recording hall is recreated. Almost all commercial recordings and motion pictures produced today use stereophonic sound, as do many television and frequency modulation (FM) radio programs. See record player record player or phonograph, device for reproducing sound that has been recorded as a spiral, undulating groove on a disk. This disk is known as a phonograph record, or simply a record (see sound recording ). ..... Click the link for more information. ; sound recording sound recording, process of converting the acoustic energy of sound into some form in which it can be permanently stored and reproduced at any time. ..... Click the link for more information. ; compact disc compact disc (CD), a small plastic disc used for the storage of digital data. As originally developed for audio systems, the sound signal is sampled at a rate of 44,100 times a second, then each sample is measured and digitally encoded on the 4 3-4 in (12 cm) disc as ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The 2005 hybrid SACD recording delivers regular two-channel stereo, SACD two-channel, and SACD five-channel. split an audio signal to create five channels of sound from common two-channel stereo sources - and without distorting the audio quality. The performances are reproduced in SACD three-channel stereo (which I didn't hear) and SACD two-channel stereo (which I listened to) on one high-density layer of the disc, and in standard two-channel CD stereo on another layer (which I also listened to), the SACD playing back in marginally better-extended sound. |
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