B O S T O N A C O U S T I C S
The human auditory system is more amazing than most
people realize. See for yourself. Close your eyes and listen to
everything around you. You’ll find it’s not hard to judge
distance and location of a sound’s origin—traffic noises,
a bird singing, a dog barking. That’s because one ear
receives the sound a fraction of a second sooner than the
other, and your brain processes this difference in time and
volume to create an instant and accurate sonic picture of
your surroundings. In fact, your brain and ears are so good
at doing this, it is difficult to fool them.
Interestingly, a surround sound speaker must do just that.
By definition, it must fool your ears into thinking they’re
in the middle of a wild-west shootout, or two thousand
fathoms under the sea, or behind the wheel of a Formula
One racer. The Boston VRS does so with ease. How it does
can be summed up in two words: Diffuse Sound.
