MIRROPHONIC SOUND.
NEW STATE EQUIPMENT.
For the first time in Auckland tbe recently-perfected Mirrophonic sound equipment will be used for the screening of a film at the State Theatre, Symonde Street, to-morrow. The production to be ehown is '' 100 Men and a Girl," starring Deanna Durbin, popular girl soprano. Adolphe Menjou has a leading role, and famous Leopold Stokoweky, of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, leads a large orchestra in numbers of stirring appeal. Result of several years of research work by the Bell Telephonic Laboratories, the new sound system, which was installed at the theatre recently, embodies all the most Biodern methods of sound transmission from the screen. The Bell firm were pioneers in experiment in connection with sound transmission. Included in the invention is a ne«" type oi di-phonia loud speakers. One of these speakers is used to express the more delicate sounds, and the second all noises above the frequency of SCO cycles. This innovation allows of much greater efficiency. Even distribution of the sound is yet another further, improvement included. This is made possible in the di-phonic loud speakers by means of multicellular horns. J
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 128, 2 June 1938, Page 11
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188MIRROPHONIC SOUND. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 128, 2 June 1938, Page 11
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