A lot of people like to play their records as loudly as possible. The (1) ________ is that the rest of the family and the neighbors often complain (2) ________ they don't like the music. One (3) ________ to this problem is to wear headphones, but headphones are usually uncomfortable.
An arm-chair which has a record-player built into it has just been (4) ________ by a British engineer, Stephen Court.
The armchair looks like an ordinary armchair with high back. However, each of the two sides of the chair has three loudspeakers inside to reproduce middle and high sounds. Low sounds are reproduced by a pair of loudspeakers in a hollow (5) ________ under the seat. Anyone who sits in the chair hears sounds coming from all around his/her head.
Because we cannot tell the exact (6) ________ from which low sounds come, it doesn't (7) ________ that they come from underneath or behind. It is the higher sounds coming from the sides of the chair that create a stereo effect.
These sounds travel only a few inches to reach the listener's ears. (8) ________, it takes only a little power to make the music sound very loud. Only a small amount of sound leaks out from behind the chair into the room to (9) ________ others. Most of the sound is (10) ________ by the listeners.
(1) result
(2) if
(3) answer
(4) designed
(5) space
(6) source
(7) matter
(8) Consequently
(9) disturb
(10) absorbed
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8 Consequyently
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