Future audio?

[Chrisbee]

We all like to wallow in audio nostalgia but what about doing some crystal ball gazing?

I imagine that in the future all our little audio problems will be taken care of by molecular, wireless SEDs (sound emitting diodes) completely covering every surface of the room. The SEDs will be embedded in paint or wallpaper and all under the rigid control of a single chip.

How do you see the future of audio reproduction?

[eddthompson]

Direct neural stimulation, bypassing the ear drum completely.

edd

[Chrisbee]

eddthompson wrote:

Direct neural stimulation, bypassing the ear drum completely.

edd

Nobody is doing a Matrix-style plug in on me!

[eddthompson]

LOL, emiters resting on the temples i was thinking, nothing invasive.

edd

[Chrisbee]

eddthompson wrote:

LOL, emiters resting on the temples i was thinking, nothing invasive.

edd

Where's the bragging rights if you haven't got a solid platinum, 79 pin, ring-lock, DIN socket straight into the cerebral cortex?

[jackfish]

A cure for tinnitus?

[Sonnie]

jackfish wrote:

A cure for tinnitus?

I'm voting for this...

[JCD]

Can you imagine if this thing comes to fruition -- Link

JCD

[Bob in St. Louis]

Chrisbee wrote:

embedded in paint or wallpaper

PartsExpress sells a wall mount "driver", kinda like a tactile transducer that claims to "turn the wall into a speaker". I don't know if I believe it though.

Pioneer makes a speaker "Array?" that hangs from the middle of the ceiling, like a chandelier that contains something like 225 small drivers. Each amped independantly, all have thier own settings like delay ect...
Very futuristic. Might just work??

I think the future hold this: One fibre optic cable (NOT a couple dozen like we have currently) that "daisy chains" ALL audio and video components together, true plug and play. No programming, no software garbage, instant recognition by all components that work together flawlessly the first time, every time. No worries about "connectability", version numbers. None of that. The only cable option would be the length.

I know, thats REALLY living in fantasy land!

Bob