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The ultimate goal in theater reproduction of sound motion pictures is the complete simulation in each part of the theater of the sound originally impinging upon the pickup microphone. This goal is at present far from having been achieved, one of the weakest links in the chain between sound striking the microphone and the sound impinging upon the ear of the auditor being the loudspeaker.
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