The use of the Thomas Labusga Sonic Diffuser makes it possible that voices and musical instruments seem larger and more tangible to the listener, and as a result the perceived spatial dimensions are more authentic.

This enhanced perception of true dimensions is due to the Thomas Labusga Sonic Diffuser’s ability to greatly influence the lateral information content - that is, the quantity of sound reflexions received by our ears off the side walls, which are responsible for the spatial and dimensional perception.

The more frequent the lateral information content is received by the auditory system, the more often information differences occur between the left and right ear as well. Due to the high quantity of information differences between the left and right ear the auditory system is highly stressed and cannot exactly pinpoint the origin of sound, therefore an ambiguous result in relation to the spatial positioning is achieved!

It is important to comprehend that the so reproduced origin of the sound is experienced by the listener as broader, larger and more tangible and real.

When a Thomas Labusga Sonic Diffuser is placed centrally behind the loudspeakers, those sound waves that are given off by the loudspeakers to the back wall are largely scattered to the side walls. From here additional reflections are generated. These are now arriving at our auditory system out of different directions and at different times. Thus the necessary high quantity of lateral sound reflections at the auditory system is achieved and the required frequent appearance of information differences between the left and the right ear is assured.

This positive effect is further enhanced when an additional Thomas Labusga Sonic Diffuser is positioned on each side wall between the loudspeaker and the listener.

If the necessary information differences occur only rarely between the ears, as in rooms with sound-absorbing or geometrical reflective flat surfaces that allow only a few reflected sound waves to arrive at our auditory system from the side walls, the auditory system does not have to work hard to precisely locate the origin of the sound. Therefore, and this is important to know, the perception of the instruments spatial dimensions is as extremely small and unnatural. So, as we listen, we experience musical instruments as too small, not in their true dimensions.

The auditory system identifies a musical instrument by its onset transients, the manner in which the initial partials of the tone build up behave. It is extremely difficult to precisely identify the instrument if this information is missing. In a room, where too much sound-absorbing material is used, the auditory system receives only infrequent information via onset transients. The identification of a particular instrument is considerably more difficult.

In conclusion, the information of the onset transients has to arrive most frequently at the auditory system to allow easy and accurate recognition of that instrument.

The right placement of the Thomas Labusga Sonic Diffuser ensures that this necessary information arrives at the auditory system at an astounding rate, which is substantiated in the spatial and time related density of this information and implied in the reflected sound waves arriving at the auditory system from different directions and at different intervals.

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