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...couch? Or how about listening to the rumble of the giant boulder in Temple of Doom bearing down on you? Filmmaker George Lucas and his soundmeister Tomlinson Holman claim that such aural thrills can be provided by their new home sound system, called THX. Holman, an audio-design engineer who created the THX (Tomlinson Holman Experiment) system widely used in theaters, has crafted a six-speaker home version that provides distortion-free sound at high volume and gives listeners the impression that the sound is surrounding them. The system will play standard videotapes and videodiscs as well as specially enhanced...
Students who have spent hours making "mix" tapes for parties will be relieved to find a new audio system at Newbury Comics which does the job in less than 30 minutes and produces a higher quality sound, employees...
...world's ocean depths are already giant audio studios for the U.S. and the Soviets. Both nations have networks of sonar buoys guyed to sea floors and connected by cable to onshore listening stations. Both meticulously map the crucial topography of the ocean bottom. Both continually analyze the thermoclines, or pockets of differing underwater temperature, that deflect and distort sound waves...
Medical scientists have discovered that flashing pulses of pure, white light at closed eyes causes patients to see kaleidoscopic images. They also noted that by controlling patterns of audio and visual pulses, they could cause the brain to change states. Researchers like Thomas Budzynski of the St. Luke Medical Center in Bellevue, Wash., learned that inducing an alpha state could help relax patients and ease chronic pain. Creating theta states helped people to improve motivation and even stop smoking...
...suburban ranch home. Yet the number of consumers who are trying to do just that has launched a booming market for audio/video installers: entrepreneurs who select and hook up the latest gear, often using wall-mounted speakers and sleek cabinetry to hide the equipment. A glossy new magazine, Audio/ Video Interiors, regularly dazzles its readers with images of posh pleasure domes of sound and light. Says John Briesch, president of Sony's Consumer Products Group (USA): "The only thing that has surprised us is how much people will pay." Even Sears and Montgomery Ward are planning to carry jumbo-screen...