Abstract: Sound reproduction and reinforcement systems and methods are presented herein for spatially enhancing stereo images typically used such performances as those involving music. The embodiments seek to expand the amount of audience area that would receive a sound image that maintains sound reproduction fidelity regarding spatial orientation of sound sources involved in an original performance. To expand the audience area receiving spatially faithful sound reproduction certain characteristics of sound have been first studied to find important factors involved.

Abstract: The loudspeaker system utilizes an ellipsoidal reflector of substantially the same diameter as the low frequency (LF) driver, positioned on-axis of the LF driver, as a reflective dispersing means for increasing the angular dispersion of acoustical energy, especially in the upper range of the LF driver. The ellipsoidal reflector is also utilized as a means to mount the higher frequency (HF) drivers in such a way that their axes diverge generally uniformly away from a point near the center of the ellipsoid so that the sound field of the higher frequency drivers is also well dispersed. The result is that the ellipsoid causes acoustical energy both from the LF driver and the HF drivers to appear to emanate from a point near the center of the ellipsoid, simulating the sound field generated by a single wide frequency range point source of sound.

Abstract: The circuit of the angle resolver compares a first angle to a second angle and produces an output voltage which is an analog representation of the angular difference between the two. One of the angles, which might be a controlled variable is represented by a pair of electrical signals from an electronic compass, for example, which are analog representations of the sine and cosine of the angle. Within the angle resolver circuitry, an analog switch and integrator form an output voltage which is accurately proportional to the sine of the angular difference between the two angles in accordance with: sine (A--B)=(sin A) (cos B)--(cos A) (sin B), where B might be the reference angle, and A, the unknown angle. For cases where A is nearly equal to B, A--B is a small angle, and sin (A--B)=A--B. The values of cos B and sin B are very simply linearly approximated in the present invention by the technique of sampling and integrating the sin A and cos A inputs.