High-fidelity Reproduction Research Articles

A loudspeaker installation for high-fidelity reproduction in the home

For more than a quarter of a century the normal broadcast receiver has been equipped with a single loudspeaker fitted inside the cabinet. The introduction of sets with two separate speakers, each reproducing part of the frequency spectrum on the Philips Bi-Ampli principle, dates only from the last few years. The installation described goes a big step further, the loudspeakers berg entirely separated from the amplifying part; two low-note speakers are housed together in a special cabinet and two high-note speakers separately in their own boxes. The quality of reproduction has been remarkably improved in this way, which appears to full advantage with fm reception and the playback of gramophone records or tape recordings.

High Fidelity

During the Cleveland meeting of the Acoustical Society, the morning of November 6 was devoted to a panel discussion of what constitutes high fidelity reproduction. It was fairly generally agreed that, from an idealistic viewpoint, high fidelity reproduction constitutes bringing to each ear of the listener an exact facsimile of the original sound he would have heard in the auditorium where it was produced.

High fidelity reproduction of music (a discussion meeting of the London Section of the Institution held on March 10th 1944)

High fidelity reproduction of music (a discussion meeting of the London Section of the Institution held on March 10th 1944)