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- BUSINESS, Page 49Business NotesAUDIO COMPONENTSA Dose of Aural Gratification
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- Want to hear the sound of Jabba the Hutt laughing as if he
- were sitting next to you on the couch? Or how about listening
- to the rumble of the giant boulder in Temple of Doom bearing
- down on you? Filmmaker George Lucas and his soundmeister
- Tomlinson Holman claim that such aural thrills can be provided
- by their new home sound system, called THX. Holman, an
- audio-design engineer who created the THX (Tomlinson Holman
- Experiment) system widely used in theaters, has crafted a
- six-speaker home version that provides distortion-free sound at
- high volume and gives listeners the impression that the sound
- is surrounding them. The system will play standard videotapes
- and videodiscs as well as specially enhanced products.
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- Pure sound is not cheap. The top-of-the-line system unveiled
- at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago last week will cost
- about $8,000. Quips Holman: "It's a natural for people who are
- nesting or who don't want to buy an RV." Some individual THX
- components, which will be built in the U.S. and Japan, will be
- available later this summer.
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