surround sound articles
What was Ray Dolby's primary initial focus leading to his success?
How did the introduction of Dolby Stereo encode audio channels onto film tracks?
What major flaw plagued early multi-channel theatrical sound experiments?
Which musician is explicitly mentioned as being distinct from Ray Dolby?
What was the primary goal of early audio engineers in spatial audio beginnings?
Which 1977 films became benchmarks for Dolby Stereo's immersive audio?
What component does the ".1" in the 5.1 standard specifically represent?
What distinguished the initial implementation of the DTS competitor format?
What concept is modern audio systems increasingly moving toward instead of fixed channel counts?
What characteristic often limited the surround channel when mixing for legacy 5.1 systems?
What required the true emergence of cinema sound calibration?
What system, backed by Warner Bros., relied on a separate phonograph record?
What critical flaw plagued early synchronization efforts like the Kinetophone?
What technological advantage did Movietone and Phonofilm share over disc systems?
Why did the adoption of synchronized sound necessitate 24 fps standardization urgently?
What three critical areas did early cinema sound calibration need to cover?
What was the primary function of standardized test films or 'tone reels'?
Which professional organization is cited for developing technical audio reproduction standards?
What consequence drove the necessity for MGM's audio investment to be protected by calibration?
What characterizes the second stage in the three-stage evolution of cinema sound?
What did inventors like Edison and de Forest primarily accomplish in the first stage of sound evolution?
What was the primary goal of Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville when he developed the phonautograph?
In what year did Thomas Alva Edison announce the invention of the phonograph?
What was the medium used by Scott de Martinville to capture the physical trace of sound waves?
What phrase did Thomas Edison successfully record and play back first on his phonograph?
What crucial capability did Edison's phonograph possess that the phonautograph lacked?
When were Scott de Martinville's sound recordings digitally recovered and made audible?
What French folk song was faintly sung in the 1860 recording recovered from Scott's phonautogram?
Which conceptual divide best separates the aims of Scott de Martinville and Thomas Edison?
Which inventor achieved Step 1 (Capture) of recorded media engineering, while the other achieved Step 1 and Step 2 (Capture and Reproduction)?
What material did Edison wrap around the rotating cylinder of his phonograph?