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Ambient imaging loudspeaker system

US4847904A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 1, 1988
Grant dateJul 11, 1989
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Expiry dateApr 1, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04S1/002
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Sound reproduction apparatus comprising a pair of loudspeaker systems each including a plurality of loudspeakers for producing audio signals in response to respective electrical right (R) and left (L) stereophonic signals. Each system is mounted in an enclosure with sides and a gabled or V-shaped front portion characterized in having a pair of flat, vertical panels each joined to respective ones of the sides, the panels being joined at an intersecting angle to one another of about 90 to about 120 degrees at a forwardly projecting vertical ridge. Each system has a tweeter, woofer and mid-range speaker all connected for monophonically reproducing only a respective one of the stereophonic signals, and positioned in first ones of its panels. Each system also includes at least a second mid-range speaker connected for reproducing only a difference output between the stereophonic signals by using a dual voice coil driver, the second mid-range speaker being positioned in the other of its panels. When arranged side by side and spaced apart, the difference outputs are directed away from both speakers and the monophonic outputs are directed approximately toward one another. The entire apparat…

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