Thx

THX is EBM/Electro project from Germany. It consists the brainchild of sound wizzard Peter Schmidt and well known electronic/techno producer Andy Düx (e.g. Voyou, Overdrive Rec.). The releases such as „Living in Purgatory“ (album) or the vinyl-singles „Luv’n’Trust“ and „Holy City Zoo“ have been real dance floor hits in the EBM/Electro clubs back in the 90s. THX is also a trade name of a high-fidelity sound reproduction standard for movie theaters, screening rooms, home theaters, computer speakers, gaming consoles, and car audio systems. THX stands for Tomlinson Holman's eXperiment. THX was developed by Tomlinson Holman at George Lucas's company Lucasfilm in 1983 to ensure that the soundtrack for the third Star Wars film, Return of the Jedi, would be accurately reproduced in the best venues. The distinctive crescendo used in the THX trailers is known as the "Deep Note". The THX system is a recording technology, and it does not specify a sound recording format: all sound formats, whether digital (Dolby Digital, SDDS) or analog (Dolby SR, Ultra-Stereo), can be "shown in THX." THX is mainly a quality assurance system. THX-certified theaters provide a high-quality, predictable playback environment to ensure that any film soundtrack mixed in THX will sound as near as possible to the intentions of the mixing engineer. THX also provides certified theaters with a special crossover circuit whose use is part of the standard. Certification of an auditorium entails specific acoustic and other technical requirements; architectural requirements include a floating floor, baffled and acoustically treated walls, no parallel walls (to reduce standing waves), a perforated screen (to allow center channel continuity), and NC30 rating for background noise. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.