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surround sound

system with loudspeakers that surround the listener
class sound_format Q569874
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surround sound

Summary

surround sound is a sound format[1]. It draws 310 Wikipedia views per month (sound_format category, ranking #3 of 17).[2]

Key Facts

  • surround sound's image is recorded as 2 0-1 channels (dolby surround) label.svg[3].
  • surround sound's image is recorded as 4 0 channels (quadrophonic)(quadrophonie) label.svg[4].
  • surround sound's image is recorded as 5 1 channels (surround sound) label.svg[5].
  • surround sound's instance of is recorded as sound format[6].
  • surround sound's GND ID is recorded as 4733319-4[7].
  • surround sound's subclass of is recorded as multi-channel sound system[8].
  • surround sound's Commons category is recorded as Surround sound[9].
  • surround sound's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01ln8r[10].
  • surround sound's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Surround sound[11].
  • surround sound's Quora topic ID is recorded as Surround-Sound[12].
  • surround sound's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as surround-sound[13].
  • surround sound's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as omgivelseslyd_-_hjemmekino[14].
  • surround sound's LC and MARC vocabularies ID is recorded as mplayback/mul[15].
  • surround sound's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2780544925[16].
  • surround sound's Lex ID is recorded as surround_sound[17].
  • surround sound's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2780544925[18].

Why It Matters

surround sound draws 310 Wikipedia views per month (sound_format category, ranking #3 of 17).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

5.1 surround sound 7.1 surround sound digital signal processor multi-channel sound system quadraphonic sound The Wire

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_surround-sound_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{surround sound}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/surround-sound}, note = {Accessed: 2026-03-11}}
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