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What with all the attention give to high-definition and 3D in 2010, it’d be easy to underestimate the role of great sound in the film experience. But think about it: what was it that made the shark attack in Jaws so scary? Why did the... Read more

The Opera of the Future group is an MIT Media Lab Research Group led by Society of Sound Fellow Tod Machover. It explores concepts and techniques to help advance the future of musical composition, performance, learning, and expression. Through the design of new interfaces for... Read more

The Bowers & Wilkins MT-25 system has already won an award from What Hi-Fi? Sound & Vision, and now the technology specialists at T3 magazine have raved about its qualities. Reviewed as a 7.1 system, with two extra M-1s added to the usual complement of... Read more

After listening to the podcast discussion about surround sound in the Lab it got us wondering just how many speakers is enough for Home Theatre. The standard is obviously 5.1, with five speakers and a dedicated subwoofer. But we recently supplied speakers and amplification for... Read more