4/23/2009

Leave to the over-funded NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) to invent beyond-bazillion, googlephonic multichannel sound for headphones. I mean, she-e-e-eit..Why bother to put 22.2 speaker elements in headphones?

NHK Develops Headphone Processor for 22.2 Multichannel Sound
Nikkei Electronics, Tech-On! – April 22, 2009

Japan Broadcasting Corp (NHK) developed a headphone processor that can precisely reproduce “22.2 multichannel sound,” which provides more realistic sensations compared with 5.1ch surround sound, with headphones available on the market...more...

Props to the Steve Martin bit from his album “Googlephonics (Album Version).”

I bought a Stereo! Wow! With two speakers!
But then I heard the quad with the four speakers and I was like this is it, so I got rid of the stereo and got the quad.
I’m listening to this thing and I’m like “Hey this sounds like SHIT!”
So, I got rid of that and got the dodecaphonic with the 12 speakers.
This was more to my liking…for a while. But the year gets pretty sophisticated pretty fast and I got rid of that and got the milliphonic with the 1,000 speakers.
And I’m listening to that one and I’m like, “Hey, this sounds like SHIT too! The other one was SHIT one, this one is SHIT too!”
So, I traded that in and got the googlephonic, which is the highest number of speakers you can have before infinity.
Sounds like SHIT!
So, then I said, “Hey, maybe it’s the needle!”
I had the typical diamond needle. I searched around got the moonrock needle, cost me 3 million bucks, but what the hey. So, now I have a googlephonic stereo with a moonrock needle. It’s okay for a car stereo, I wouldn’t want it in my house.

AMAZON.com
Googlephonics (Album Version)
by Steve Martin
From the album Comedy Is Not Pretty
Price: $0.99
* Original release date: November 30, 1978
* Format: MP3, 256 kbps — plays on iPod® and all MP3 players