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From: munck@linus.UUCP (Robert Munck)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Speaker cables
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Date: Thu, 24-Sep-87 13:55:16 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 24 13:55:16 1987
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Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA
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In article <204600004@prism> billc@prism.UUCP writes:
>
>	I guess the ultimate thing to do would be send the information
>	to the speakers over digital lines, and have complete decoding
>	and amplification set ups on each speaker.  Controls from the
>	main hardware could go over dedicated lines to handle mixing.
>
>	:-) :-) :-)


Why the smiley faces?  That's exactly the right thing to do, and I'd be
willing to bet that it's the standard within ten years.  All of those
CD players out there are forcing down the cost of the necessary ICs
and lasers, with so much error correction involved that very cheap
fiber optics can be used.  Personally, I'd like to build a pair of
wireless headphones using digital IR transmission; it's well within
the state of the art.  BTW, there's plenty of room for various control
signals in the CD encoding format.
                           -- Bob Munck, MITRE