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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1998
David H. Griesinger, Cambridge, MA (US);
Harman International Industries, Incorporated, Northridge, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for providing enhanced coupling of a stereophonic pair of full-range loudspeakers or subwoofers to all room modes of a laterally symmetric listening room wherein the preferred location of a listener is on the lateral center line thereof, by applying the left and right audio signals or the low frequency components thereof through a pair of all-pass phase shift networks having an in-phase relationship at higher audio frequencies and an approximately quadrature phase relationship at low audio frequencies where localization is not possible. The method and system may further be compensated by a 3 dB bass boost in each channel to provide the same sound pressure level at low frequencies as would occur with a pair of subwoofers placed together in one comer of the room and driven in phase, thereby ensuring a constant sound pressure level along the lateral center line of the listening room at all audio frequencies.