Stereo
noun
A system that plays music and sound using two speakers for a three-dimensional sound effect.
The new song sounds amazing on my stereo.
Often appears as...
- stereo system
- stereo sound
adjective
Using two channels of sound; not mono.
The stereo version of the album has a better sound quality.
Often appears as...
- stereo sound
- stereo mix
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Technical
noun
A system that plays music and sound using two speakers for a three-dimensional sound effect.
The new song sounds amazing on my stereo.
Often appears as...
- stereo system
- stereo sound
adjective
Using two channels of sound; not mono.
The stereo version of the album has a better sound quality.
Often appears as...
- stereo sound
- stereo mix
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Context Usage
Stereo often refers to any audio system in casual conversation, not just two-speaker setups.
Check out my new stereo, it has amazing sound quality!
Pro Tip 2/3Technical Precision
When speaking about audio equipment, 'stereo' specifically means two-channel sound systems.
This stereo has a left and a right channel for immersive audio.
Pro Tip 3/3Evolution
'Stereo' once implied high-tech, but now it's just a standard way of playing sound.
Everyone has a stereo; it's no longer a luxury item.
Pro Tip 1/3Context Usage
Stereo often refers to any audio system in casual conversation, not just two-speaker setups.
Check out my new stereo, it has amazing sound quality!
Pro Tip 2/3Technical Precision
When speaking about audio equipment, 'stereo' specifically means two-channel sound systems.
This stereo has a left and a right channel for immersive audio.
Pro Tip 3/3Evolution
'Stereo' once implied high-tech, but now it's just a standard way of playing sound.
Everyone has a stereo; it's no longer a luxury item.
Pro Tip 1/3Context Usage
Stereo often refers to any audio system in casual conversation, not just two-speaker setups.
Check out my new stereo, it has amazing sound quality!
Pro Tip 2/3Technical Precision
When speaking about audio equipment, 'stereo' specifically means two-channel sound systems.
This stereo has a left and a right channel for immersive audio.
Pro Tip 3/3Evolution
'Stereo' once implied high-tech, but now it's just a standard way of playing sound.
Everyone has a stereo; it's no longer a luxury item.
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Why Can't We See...
that life is ultimately just complex patterns of information interacting with each other in a beautiful way, and that can happen more efficiently at a small scale. So just as on Earth, clunky stereo systems have shrunk to beautiful, tiny iPods, maybe intelligent life itself, in order to reduce its footprint on the environment, has turned itself microscopic,
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Questions No One Knows...
Or, maybe we're looking at the wrong scale. Perhaps intelligent civilizations come to realize that life is ultimately just complex patterns of information interacting with each other in a beautiful way, and that that can happen more efficiently at a small scale. So, just as on Earth, clunky stereo systems have shrunk
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How do dogs "see" with...
As your dog catches the first hints of fresh air, her nose's moist, spongy outside helps capture any scents the breeze carries. The ability to smell separately with each nostril, smelling in stereo, helps to determine the direction of the smell's source so that within the first few moments of sniffing,
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How to get your ideas to...
They want to talk to the people who do, and maybe it'll spread. These guys make the loudest car stereo in the world. It's as loud as a 747 jet. You can't get in, the car's got bulletproof glass, because it'll blow out the windshield otherwise. But the fact remains
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Woody Norris: Hypersonic...
I said we can shorten the column, we can spread it out to cover the couch. I can put it so that one ear hears one speaker, the other ear hears the other. That's true binaural sound. When you listen to stereo on your home system, your both ears hear both speakers.
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The paradox of choice PIPE...
there are that many stereo systems. We can construct six and a half million different stereo systems out of the components that are on offer in one store. You've got to admit that's a lot of choice. In other domains -- the world of communications.
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Julian Treasure: Why...
on a cheap stereo system, making us jump out of our skins. We're designing environments that make us crazy. And it's not just our quality of life which suffers. It's our health, our social behavior, and our productivity as well.
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Magnets as Brakes? PIPE I...
now magnets are everywhere there in computers televisions hi-fi's fans washing machines stereo equipment tape players absolutely everywhere right down to the humble fridge magnet and they
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Brazil’s indigenous...
it they don't have a power anymore for work like four demonstrates indigenous a turn for the market now they go to mini mini stereo of Justice Minister of
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These Rats Can Detect...
Mandy sniffs in stereo. She can differentiate two very similar smells with just one sniff.
Video examples
Why Can't We See...
that life is ultimately just complex patterns of information interacting with each other in a beautiful way, and that can happen more efficiently at a small scale. So just as on Earth, clunky stereo systems have shrunk to beautiful, tiny iPods, maybe intelligent life itself, in order to reduce its footprint on the environment, has turned itself microscopic,
Video examples
Questions No One Knows...
Or, maybe we're looking at the wrong scale. Perhaps intelligent civilizations come to realize that life is ultimately just complex patterns of information interacting with each other in a beautiful way, and that that can happen more efficiently at a small scale. So, just as on Earth, clunky stereo systems have shrunk
Video examples
How do dogs "see" with...
As your dog catches the first hints of fresh air, her nose's moist, spongy outside helps capture any scents the breeze carries. The ability to smell separately with each nostril, smelling in stereo, helps to determine the direction of the smell's source so that within the first few moments of sniffing,
Video examples
How to get your ideas to...
They want to talk to the people who do, and maybe it'll spread. These guys make the loudest car stereo in the world. It's as loud as a 747 jet. You can't get in, the car's got bulletproof glass, because it'll blow out the windshield otherwise. But the fact remains
Video examples
Woody Norris: Hypersonic...
I said we can shorten the column, we can spread it out to cover the couch. I can put it so that one ear hears one speaker, the other ear hears the other. That's true binaural sound. When you listen to stereo on your home system, your both ears hear both speakers.
Video examples
The paradox of choice PIPE...
there are that many stereo systems. We can construct six and a half million different stereo systems out of the components that are on offer in one store. You've got to admit that's a lot of choice. In other domains -- the world of communications.
Video examples
Julian Treasure: Why...
on a cheap stereo system, making us jump out of our skins. We're designing environments that make us crazy. And it's not just our quality of life which suffers. It's our health, our social behavior, and our productivity as well.
Video examples
Magnets as Brakes? PIPE I...
now magnets are everywhere there in computers televisions hi-fi's fans washing machines stereo equipment tape players absolutely everywhere right down to the humble fridge magnet and they
Video examples
Brazil’s indigenous...
it they don't have a power anymore for work like four demonstrates indigenous a turn for the market now they go to mini mini stereo of Justice Minister of
Video examples
These Rats Can Detect...
Mandy sniffs in stereo. She can differentiate two very similar smells with just one sniff.
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Steve Lukather
American Musician
When a new record came out, the world would stop that day, and we would sit in somebody's house - whoever had the best stereo system - and sit in the middle of the two speakers and listen and discuss and listen again and go over the album notes and get out the guitar and start playing it and discuss and play some more.
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Dave Sitek
American Musician
I want to make hand-held music, undiminished by the need to make everybody in the world listen at once. The goal is to ride into the sunset, stereo blasting, and all of what's got you worried will disappear in the rear view mirror!
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Gregory Porter
American Musician
Nat King Cole's lyrics were speaking to me, almost like fatherly advice, when I was listening to him alongside the console stereo player. So that music and that influence comes out of me.
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Brad Pitt
Actor
When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo.
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Woody Norris
American Inventor
When you listen to stereo on your home system, your both ears hear both speakers. Turn on the left speaker sometime and notice you're hearing it also in your right ear.
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Nicolas Cage
Actor
Film has lost something in the translation to high tech. It's become so super-real. It's with digital this and stereo that, and everything's like a CD.
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Gethin Jones
I love Westlife. I turn up the stereo and listen to the a capella version of 'Flying Without Wings'. Any man who says he doesnt do the same is lying.
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A. Bartlett Giamatti
American Educator
This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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Christina Applegate
American Actress
I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.
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Lita Ford
American Musician
We don't have a lot of neighbors so we can blast the stereo.
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Steve Lukather
American Musician
When a new record came out, the world would stop that day, and we would sit in somebody's house - whoever had the best stereo system - and sit in the middle of the two speakers and listen and discuss and listen again and go over the album notes and get out the guitar and start playing it and discuss and play some more.
Quote examples
Dave Sitek
American Musician
I want to make hand-held music, undiminished by the need to make everybody in the world listen at once. The goal is to ride into the sunset, stereo blasting, and all of what's got you worried will disappear in the rear view mirror!
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Gregory Porter
American Musician
Nat King Cole's lyrics were speaking to me, almost like fatherly advice, when I was listening to him alongside the console stereo player. So that music and that influence comes out of me.
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Brad Pitt
Actor
When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo.
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Woody Norris
American Inventor
When you listen to stereo on your home system, your both ears hear both speakers. Turn on the left speaker sometime and notice you're hearing it also in your right ear.
Quote examples
Nicolas Cage
Actor
Film has lost something in the translation to high tech. It's become so super-real. It's with digital this and stereo that, and everything's like a CD.
Quote examples
Gethin Jones
I love Westlife. I turn up the stereo and listen to the a capella version of 'Flying Without Wings'. Any man who says he doesnt do the same is lying.
Quote examples
A. Bartlett Giamatti
American Educator
This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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Christina Applegate
American Actress
I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.
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Lita Ford
American Musician
We don't have a lot of neighbors so we can blast the stereo.
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