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In Reply to: RE: Satellites? posted by Sumflow on August 02, 2012 at 20:59:10
that is the left and right speaker in a sub/sat speaker system. its been commonly used since that configuration has been utilized.
...regards...tr
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Definition of: satellite speaker: Typically refers to a speaker in a home theater system that is placed behind or on the side of the listening area. See surround sound.http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,1237,t=satellite+speaker&i=60122,00.asp
Definition of: surround sound: An audio recording and playback system that uses five or more channels plus a subwoofer channel. Surround sound is used primarily for movies and games.
http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,1237,t=surround+sound&i=58197,00.asp
Satellite speaker: Small speakers generally used as surround speakers placed or mounted in various locations (hence the name "satellite") around a room for a home theater setup. Because they tend to have limited bass response, they're often designed to be used with a matching subwoofer.
http://www.crutchfield.com/Learn/learningcenter/home/speakers_glossary.html#S
Satellite speakers: Speakers used in surround-sound systems that are intended to be placed around a center channel speaker, as a part of a technique to recreate "three-dimensional" immersive sound; they tend to be smaller than the center speaker, and often contain audio to the left, right, and behind of the center channel.
http://dvd-b.com/Pages/HTGlossary.html
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Edits: 08/03/12
I thought that satellite speakers were used in surround sound systems. I never heard of studio monitors referred to as satellites before. Where did you get that?
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Nothing in Audio reproduction looks better than invisible....
subwoofer-SATELLITE systems have been around for a LONG time. i don't know how you missed this terminology.
personally, i don't feel that making the speakers invisible is desirable. mostly its the women of the house that want that. mostly, when that is done, the sound is compromised to a noticeable degree.
...regards...tr
> the sound is compromised to a noticeable degree. <
Yes of course invisible is not possible without compromise. But the idea is that all of this stuff is not beautiful. Manufacturers need to miniaturize, camouflage, get components out of sight. Music needs to be heard, not seen. Components, wires, amps need to fall back into the background and disappear.
I can understand how speakers placed all around a room are like satellites surrounding a planet. But I cannot visualize two L/R stereo speakers shooting at your ears assuming the name, or image, of satellites. They do not fit the picture.
Satellite
ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘follower, obsequious underling’): from French satellite or Latin satelles, satellit- ‘attendant.’ 1540s, "follower or attendant of a superior person," (14c.), "attendant,""full, enough" "to go" English follow, which is constructed of similar roots. Meaning "planet that revolves about a larger one" first attested 1660s, in reference to the moons of Jupiter,.. which was used in this sense 1610s by German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630). Galileo, who had discovered them, called them Sidera Medicća in honor of the Medici family. Meaning "man-made machinery orbiting the Earth" first recorded 1936 as theory, 1957 as fact. Meaning "country dependent and subservient to another" is recorded from 1800.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=satellite&allowed_in_frame=0
satellite |ˈsatlˌīt|
noun
1 (also artificial satellite )an artificial body placed in orbit around the earth or moon or another planet in order to collect information or for communication.
• [ as modifier ] transmitted by satellite; using or relating to satellite technology: satellite broadcasting.
• satellite television: a news service on satellite.
2 Astronomy a celestial body orbiting the earth or another planet.
3 [ usu. as modifier ] something that is separated from or on the periphery of something else but is nevertheless dependent on or controlled by it: satellite offices in London and New York.
• a small country or state politically or economically dependent on another.
4 Biology a portion of the DNA of a genome with repeating base sequences and of different density from the main sequence.
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All of your posted definitions are not going to advance your argument. The fact is that three-piece (small L&R satellites + subwoofer) stereo speaker systems have been around for many years and predate the home theater surround systems that you reference in order to advance your argument. You just may not have been around long enough to remember them.
IIRC, it was Cambridge Soundworks (not the British company that we're familiar with today) that started hawking their small left and right satellite (and yes they referred to them as satellites) plus subwoofer three-piece systems in full page ads in magazines like Stereo Review as early as the late 1960's.
A quick Google search (L&R+subwoofer stereo speaker systems) will yield names like Altec Lansing, Logitech, Boston Accoustics, Cambridge, and Bose, among others who are marketing their 2.1 (satellite plus subwoofer) stereo speaker systems at the present time. They all are using the term satellites when referencing their L&R speakers.
A satellite is an object which has been placed into orbit. A follower, supporter, lackey, parasite, sycophant, flunky. Satellite speakers revolve around (surround), stereo systems. They are not the stereo system itself.
Just because some foreign marketing type misused the term does not change what a satellite is. When you take the frivolous speakers away you still have a fully functioning stereo with nothing surrounding it. All the rest of us know what a satellite is. This may be why no-one else has misused, that is not understand what a satellite is anywhere in this thread.
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Hide it~ nothing looks better in Audio gear, than invisible....
I consider the source.
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Hide it~ nothing looks better in Audio gear, than invisible....
Don't you have anything better to do than to waste your time searching for lame definitions in hope that they will help you to defend a bad position?
You are a compulsive right fighter and I feel sorry for you. You are one sick puppy.
In case you haven't noticed it nobody gives a flying fuck! You're considered a joke.
i wonder if he's related to Sudzy. navel gazing really hits the nail on the head.
...regards...tr
I've decided Sumflow's navel gazing prose is but flimsy cover for his real passion; posting pictures.
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