TRY TWO LOUDSPEAKERS

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 12, 7 October 1927, Page 14

TRY TWO LOUDSPEAKERS

CLEARER ORCUHSTRA RECKPTION Hlave you ever heard your wireless set as reproduced by two loudspeakers? With only one source of sound you are apt to call a violin solo "splendid" and a full orchestra ‘"‘fuzzy." One reason is that the ear is accustomed to hear a voice or a solo instrument coming from one definite spot, and the single loudspeaker gives you this condition. On the other hand, the music of a band or orchestra heard in the concert hall comes from an area of many square yards and not from a single focus. In such a case the single loudspeaker cannot help giving a false impression in this respect. Try the experiment of connecting two loudspeakers to your set, placing them some distance apart. The illusion of an orchestra is greatly improved, because you have more than one somnrce of sonnd and obtain something of a stereoscopic effect. For a casual see-how-it-works experiment the loudspeakers should be connected in "narallel." | You do not double your volume, but | vou should find a marked improvement

RE tiotes given by the cone, but almost or entirely lost in the horn. The consequence is a surprising clarity, otherWise unknown in band and orchestral items. The best arrangement is to have the¥ two speakers on the table about a yard apart, backs to the wall, both facing the same way.