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I am left wondering what they say the rationale for what seems like tri amplified mono could be over tri amplified stereo. I mean, that appears to be the very premise for this, yet totally unremarked upon.
The demo was conducted with the speakers behind a curtain, and consisted of a recording that included nature sounds as well as music. The sound was certainly dynamic, the bass particularly powerful, and the imaging waswell, strange. According to Gérin-Lajois, that's because we're used to the artificial "stereo" imaging of conventional sound systems, and once you listen to his system for a while it will seem natural and conventional stereo will sound wrong. Although I was not allowed to take pictures of the speakers behind the curtain, but Gérin-Lajois did show them to me; they consisted of a ribbon tweeter, horn midrange, and a large box woofer, side by side. The price of the system is expected to be about $30k, and the placement of speaker components can be flexible to suit the environment. Time will tell whether audiophiles will come to accept this radical departure from two-channel and multichannel sound reproduction.
I am left wondering what they say the rationale for what seems like tri amplified mono could be over tri amplified stereo. I mean, that appears to be the very premise for this, yet totally unremarked upon.
the way I understood it is that since stereo requires two not perfectly identical sources of sound to create one (to portray a piano, say), anomolies in imaging (and tone and pitch, I assume) will occur. The brain is thus required to work harder, by joining a left and right sound, to convince itself of a realistic image in space. What this system purports to do is use well-integrated mono signals to create a specific sound source, wherein bass notes are complete and undivided (by two speakers), as are those from the mids and treble.
I thought the sound wasn't bad in realistic terms, but it seemed to be dynamically constrained, as well as lacking depth and, especially, width. The sound really seemed stuck in a very narrow vertical area, with no sound to the left or right of it, as if music was coming out of a column. But the images were quite stable, so in that regard they may have suceeded.
To each his own.