Brian Eno's weird trick for setting up your speakers

[garethb2]

Originally published at: Brian Eno's weird trick for setting up your speakers | Boing Boing

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[newbrain]

Interesting, maybe I’ll try it!
But what I really love is the f l ligature in the title:

It gives that word a fascinating, half Latin, half Asiatic script look.

[Elmer]

Back when I was too cheap to buy a home theater system, I messed around with the Hafler circuit quite a bit. It works amazingly well to provide a sense of ambience and depth to a recording. But eventually DTS and Dolby Surround won the day.

[shempneedles]

A clarifying question: is it one third speaker or a third pair of speakers?

[Elmer]

You can do it both ways - I usually used a third pair because of my placement requirements, but a single speaker works just as well.

[belovedvillain]

I did this unwittingly as a kid and loved it. NICE!

[shempneedles]

Thanks a million.

[boonspender]

Reminds me of the The Dreaming Plug - it does passive phase cancellation on your headphone signal so you only get the pseudo surround sound effect. So named because it was discovered by someone with broken headphones listening to The Dreaming by Kate Bush.
http://gaffa.org/dreaming/e4_dplug.html