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Three-in-one speaker system 'gives true stereo wherever you are'
Your reporter has to look at a lot of products and it seems that around 98 percent of those at events like last night's Digital Summer showcase (see Belkin story below) are iPod docks. This is unfair, because the real figure is around 50 percent but sometimes I feel that if I look at another one I shall scream.
Some of them are beautifully designed, though, and I particularly liked one called the T6 from an English company Orbitsound. For one thing it has a preamp that uses valves instead of transistors. The valves stick out of the top and you can imagine the electrons streaming across them, though of course the light comes from the heaters.
Like many of these devices it has a standard audio jack so that it can be used by those many people who use audio devices other than iPods.
The £199 (inc Vat) device comes with a single speaker cabinet, which is also interesting because Orbitsound says it reproduces true stereo wherever you are in a room. It does this by beaming three audio streams using a central speaker and two more at right angles.
The central one beams the result of adding the right and left audio channels. The left speaker beams the left channel minus the right channel, and the right speaker beams the right minus the left.
The sound of these side speakers contain the spatial information the ear uses to give a sense of direction, says . Heard separately they are unintelligible.
If you doubt that this will give true stereo, consider that Orbitsound does not regard the sound you get in headsets as such. It reasons that each ear is receiving a mono streams: if you were listening to the same audio stream on speakers your ears would receiving sound from both.
Orbitsound offers a smaller £79.99 (inc Vat) version of the T6 speakers called the T3, which is designed to hang around your neck, and a £349 (inc Vat) Soundbar designed for the living room.
Posted by Clive Akass on May 2, 2008 | Permalink
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Valves truly are great .. but for "adding Back" the warmth to sound? Hmm sounds like simple harmonic distotrtion.. Hi bitrate mp3s and even CD's could do with it but Spendor Bc1's with a Quad44/404 might do better..
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