Sanjay,

I'm sure that you noticed the tongue-in-cheek approach in my post - but yes I had some passing knowledge of past real-world attempts.

But to get back to my concept...it does not rely on "speakers" at all. Think of the enclosure as a continuous membrane that is able to produce sound at any point source. Perhaps an infinite number of pixels on a curved / complex surface would be a good analogy. As such it becomes not a 5.1, or 7.1, or even 16.1 system, but rather an infinite.infinite system - which is surely the natural culmination of adding more and more channels. My concept simply gets us there right away - and eliminates all those costly upgrades in between!

Jeff Mackwood