Surround Sound

Surround Sound This concept goes back to well before the quadraphonic recording era, and also before the period when outfits like Sound Concepts, Audio Pulse, Advent, Acoustic Research, Lexicon, and Yamaha were experimenting with or marketing four-channel surround processors of one sort of another for home-audio use. Indeed, on a commercial level it goes back at least as far as Disney’s work on the movie Fantasia, released in 1940. Modern (and successful) surround-sound in home-listening…