14 Facts About Stereophonic sound

Stereophonic sound or more commonly stereo, is a method of sound reproduction that recreates a multi-directional, 3-dimensional audible perspective.

Stereo Stereophonic sound has been in common use since the 1970s in entertainment media such as broadcast radio, recorded music, television, video cameras, cinema, computer audio, and internet.

Every one who has been fortunate enough to hear the telephones at the Palais de l'Industrie has remarked that, in listening with both ears at the two telephones, the Stereophonic sound takes a special character of relief and localization which a single receiver cannot produce.

One of the techniques investigated was the wall of Stereophonic sound, which used an enormous array of microphones hung in a line across the front of an orchestra.

The first commercial motion picture to be exhibited with stereophonic sound was Walt Disney's Fantasia, released in November 1940, for which a specialized sound process was developed.

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VistaVision took a simplified, low-cost approach to stereophonic sound; its Perspecta system featured only a monaural track, but through subaudible tones, it could change the direction of the sound to come from the left, right or both directions at once.

Progress of stereophonic sound was paced by the technical difficulties of recording and reproducing two or more channels in synchronization with one another, and by the economic and marketing issues of introducing new audio media and equipment.

Stereophonic sound came to at least a select few living rooms of the mid-1950s.

Side 1 featured the Dukes of Dixieland, and Side 2 featured railroad and other Stereophonic sound effects designed to engage and envelop the listener.

Multichannel television Stereophonic sound, better known as MTS, is the method of encoding three additional audio channels into an NTSC-format audio carrier.

Descriptions of stereophonic sound tend to stress the ability to localize the position of each instrument in space, but this would only be true in a carefully engineered and installed system, where speaker placement and room acoustics are taken into account.

Originally, in the late 1950s and 1960s, stereophonic sound was marketed as seeming "richer" or "fuller-sounding" than monophonic sound, but these sorts of claims were and are highly subjective, and again, dependent on the equipment used to reproduce the sound.

Stereo Stereophonic sound provides a more natural listening experience, since the spatial location of the source of a Stereophonic sound is reproduced.

In common usage, a "stereo" is a two-channel Stereophonic sound reproduction system, and a "stereo recording" is a two-channel recording.