“We are the art gallery curators,” announced Tom Holman at the first home cinema dealer training I attended at Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, CA in July of 1995. Many readers will know that the mastermind behind THX (whose initials formed the ‘TH’ of the three-letter logo) probably contributed more to our academic understanding of what a home cinema actually is than any other living audio engineer or acoustician. Of course, it’s fitting that Holman is now the guru at Apple’s audio labs, and his ongoing research into psychoacoustics and multi-channel sound reproduction will certainly continue to promote its long-lasting and reverberating effects.
With quadrophonic audio for the most part already consigned to the trashcan of history by the late 1970s, but with matrix Dolby Surround processors starting to find their way into living rooms by the late 1980s, it was becoming clear that a unified theory – for want of a better term – was needed to address the misunderstanding surrounding...
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