Modern Marvels celebrates the ingenuityinvention and imagination found in the world around us. From commonplace items like ink and coffee to architectural masterpieces and engineering disasters, the hit series goes beyond the basics to provide insight and history into things we wonder about and that impact our lives. This series tells fascinating stories of the doers, the dreamers and sometime schemers that create everyday items, technological breakthroughs and manmade wonders. The hit series goes deep to explore the leading edge of human inspiration and ambition. Episode Stereo and the Sound Revolution – It has become a new dimension in entertainment. It pulls us into the center of the action with explosive sounds and computer controlled audio design from it’s humble beginnings in the basements of amateurs stereo has grown into a multi billion dollar industry. Dynamic sounds sends shivers up our spines in the theaters, relaxes us at home, and entertains us in the car. The story of stereo is the story of invention andtransformation. At first sound reproduction was the norm with one channel, but since we listen with two ears, two channel or stereo sound became the goal. Stereo, means 3 dimensional or solid, it means that the sound field is coming from all directions around you. Sound revolution was a quest by visionaries for the perfect listening experience, it was a quest for the impossible, audio perfection. Stereo didn’t debut until 1957 but it had a long history of brilliant sound breakthroughs as early as the 1920s America was tapping it’s feet to amazing innovations that brought music into the home. The revolution in audio had begun.
