pmr@drutx.UUCP (Rastocny) (06/25/84)
I finally got around to testing the hypothesis that additional speakers in the listening room affect the sound. In summary, I could hear no difference. If other people thought they heard differences, fine. I didn't. Yours for higher fidelity, Phil Rastocny AT&T-ISL ..!drutx!pmr
crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell) (07/02/84)
> I finally got around to testing the hypothesis that additional speakers > in the listening room affect the sound. In summary, I could hear no > difference. If other people thought they heard differences, fine. > I didn't. Interesting. As I recall, that was Briggs's conclusion, too. But I vaguely recall that he wrote that in one experiment, he erected an acoustically transparent (as nearly as possible; he worked on that, too) screen to hide some of the speakers in the room when he conducted multiple-speaker comparison tests. It seems that listeners were reacting differently to the appearances of some of the specimens. Unfortunately, I can't lay my hands on the reference at the moment. Anyone have it? -- Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!crandell