Abstract: An environmental sound loudspeaker comprises a system and/or method for capturing, processing, and immediately replaying the captured sounds. The loudspeaker comprises a loudspeaker driver, a signal processor, a first microphone and a second microphone positioned a distance d apart, diametrically opposite each other and equidistant relative to a center of the driver. The signal processor receives a first input signal from the first microphone and a second input signal from the second microphone, each input signal representing a recorded sound; determines an output signal based on the first and second input signals; optionally, manipulates or enhances the sound, and provides the output signal to the driver. The output signal comprises inverting the first input signal, combining the inverted first input signal with the second input signal, and amplifying the resulting signal to obtain a high-fidelity signal of environmental sounds captured by the first and/or second microphones.

Abstract: To conclude, in a preferred embodiment in accordance with the invention, the sound system comprises two loudspeakers (LA, LB) which mask their spectral signatures at the ear (C1) of the listener by positioning the two loudspeakers (LA, LB) such that their maxima of the polar radiation patterns have directions which at least differ 30 degrees, and which generate coherent sound in the direction of the listener. These two aspects together cause different gradients of the sound of the two loudspeakers (LA, LB) at the same ear (C1) of the listener, while the information which reaches the ear (C1) from the spatially shifted different loudspeakers (LA, LB) is still coherent and not blurred by diffusion. The loudspeakers LA, LB should be spaced apart to obtain sufficient different gradients of their sound at the same ear.

Abstract: To conclude, in a preferred embodiment in accordance with the invention, the sound system comprises two loudspeakers (LA, LB) which mask their spectral signatures at the ear (C1) of the listener by positioning the two loudspeakers (LA, LB) such that their maxima of the polar radiation patterns have directions which at least differ 30 degrees, and which generate coherent sound in the direction of the listener. These two aspects together cause different gradients of the sound of the two loudspeakers (LA, LB) at the same ear (C1) of the listener, while the information which reaches the ear (C1) from the different loudspeakers (LA, LB) is still coherent and not blurred by diffusion.