42 drivers, anybody heard this ?


These guys at Yamaha claim that with this ''speaker'' you don't need a whole bunch of speakers to get surround sound.

Take a look here: http://www.yamaha.ca/av/YSP1/main.jsp , and tell me what you think.

Rgds.
foxtrot

Showing 1 response by gregm

Haven't heard it but from the description it's a dsp controlled unit that relies on reflected sound to simulate the surrounds. The controller obviously introduces a predetermined amount of delay to some of the drive units when in multichannel mode AND other response-shaping functions to overcome the narrow source (ie. the physical distance b/ween the channels).
Other than that, the 42 drivers are split into "teams" depending upon the reproduction mode used, 2channel, multi, etc.
Use of wide-range units all in one box completes the package.
Interesting...