Have you heard of DTS Surround Sensation? Well, you may soon as Kenwood is aiming to be the first to deliver surround sound from your humble bedside CD player.
Well, pseudo surround to be exact but what can you expect from just two speakers?
The forthcoming CD player, as yet unnamed, was previewed sometime ago but has yet to see the light of day but at least now you can see what it looks like and its launch date seems imminent.
DTS Surround Sensation [announced way back at CES 2008] comes from the famous DTS surround sound squad, and promises the "most realistic, three-dimensional sensation of being completely surrounded by sound -- when listening with just two speakers or stereo headphones".
DTS explains:
"Humans perceive sounds in three dimensions. Localization of sound depends on the way that sound waves from the same source differ from each other as they reach the left and right ear. Examples of these cues include such things as variance in spectral frequencies, intensity of volume, and time differences between sounds arriving in either ear.
Without any outside influence or assistance, traditional two-speaker sound systems and headphones are not designed or equipped to accurately reproduce these direct and indirect cues. Therefore, the soundstage is one-dimensional, flat, and lacking depth, and allows only limited width. DTS Surround Sensation rises to meet this challenge."
Kenwood will launch its surround CD player in Japan first this April.
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