ABSTRACT
Most of the people who are ideologically closed to the idea of immersive audio haven't worked with or listened to the medium. The final mix of Fantasia was printed onto four master optical tracks for playback using a special RCA system called "Fantasound". This multispeaker setup placed three horns behind the screen and 65 smaller rear-side speakers around the walls of the theater. In 1982, Dolby Labs introduced "Dolby Surround", an extension of their professional Dolby Film Sound Project. By 1987, millions of homes were beginning to be fitted with consumer receivers and high-end audio systems that were integrated with video. With the recent proliferation of surround-sound speaker options for both the home and studio, options exist at all levels of quality, functionality, and cost-effectiveness for installing a surround and immersive system into a studio monitoring environment. LFE channel stands for low-frequency effect and was developed by the film industry to give an extra "ummmffff" to the low-bass end.
