NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18/NN_1992_18.iso/spool/rec/audio/11642

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From: [e-mail] (Bruce G. Bostwick)
Newsgroups: rec.audio
Subject: Re: Looking For THX Info
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Date: 19 Aug 92 00:30:47 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Frank Williams) writes:
>
>Can anyone E-mail me and address in which to gather information on home
>THX.  Preferably from Lucas's company directly.

I have been told by a distant friend from high school who is now a
professional acoustician and a tech for a company that installs THX
that Lucasfilm is sitting tight, and I mean TIGHT, on THX at least for
now.  The official word is no, never, noway, nohow.

Now then: It is possible to do.  It's a matter of carefully tuning
your ENTIRE viewing room to theater specs (which are pretty tight --
min and max limits for reverb time, overall peak resonance freq,
deviation from flat response, etc., etc., far into the night) and
placing everything just so, using speakers with just exactly the right
performance specs.  This does not neccarily mean screamers, just known
instead of unknown values.

There's not much to the actual system, although there is some signal
conditioning involved, but the effort and expense involved in
standardizing the room is beyond most people's budgets.  BTW, I have
heard the result of this procedure done by the guy himself, and it was
indescribable.  (He also won't give me the environment specs, which is
one reason he's only a distant friend! but enough for now..)

Hope this helps some ..


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