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The 7-channel R-972 provides a variety of innovative and high-performance features, chief among which are Trinnov automatic room correction, 3D audio remapping, and HQV video processing. In his review for Home Theater, Mark Fleischmann concluded, "The Sherwood R-972 would be a pretty formidable A/V receiver even without the Trinnov Optimizer, with a strong feature set and HQV Reon-VX video processing. But the debut of the Trinnov Optimizer in an AVR is big news. Especially with movies, the 3D Remapping took me places I hadn’t been before. Although I spent longer than usual reviewing this product, I felt I only scratched the surface of its full potential. The Trinnov Optimizer is the sort of thing that may take the home theater community years to assimilate. I look forward to getting to know it even better."

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Painting Pictures With Sound

To produce room-filling sound, a speaker has to move a lot of air—even in a relatively small room. Moving a lot of air, particularly in a big room, necessitates a large woofer placed in an even larger box. Refrigerator-sized speakers were commonplace in audiophiles’ living rooms back in the 1950s. When stereo arrived and required two large expanses of wood-framed grille cloth, significant others objected. Downsizing began, aided in part by Edgar Villchur’s invention of the sealed-box acoustic-suspension woofer.