With the push of a button, a remote controlling your stereo, DVD player and television can turn on the electronics all at once.
RevolutionAudio, unlike other sound systems, allows the user to have television, computer or any other electronic devices hooked into one sound system. From a remote LCD controller, a person could access his or her sound system from anywhere in a room.
Students in the Audio Enthusiasts and Engineers organization, a new campus group that focuses on audio design, met this semester to construct the system from scratch.
"We started this organization and 30 to 35 students signed up," Stas Todromovich, co-founder of AEE, said. "A few smart people who joined came up with this idea where you can potentially have sound anywhere in any room you want."
Todromovich said the groundbreaking stereo system can have up to five sources. In a small apartment or entertainment room, the system would be located in four corners of the room and depending on where a person is sitting, he or she could dictate in which direction the speakers would transmit sound.
"If you have a TV in one corner and a stereo in another, your speakers are usually pointing one way and beaming sound that one way," Todromovich said. "With this new technology, you can point this sound anywhere you want. You set the setting, and you will be able to have stereo sound from one way or another."
The group funded the project with help from ASMSU, MSU's undergraduate student government, after proposing the idea to Student Assembly's funding board.
The organization received $4,500 from ASMSU. Last spring, the assembly raised the maximum amount registered student organizations could receive from $3,000 to $4,500.
"Stas and David (Lenz) came early in the semester and explained their big idea," Scott Lachman, vice-chairperson for student funding, said.
"When they came to the interview, their name said it all, they were very enthusiastic and very hands-on and excited about what they were going to do."
Lenz is the other co-founder of the organization.
Today, the group will present the new technology to MSU officials, family, sponsors and friends.
It hopes to get more sponsors and to patent the product, however the group is not as eager to go to corporations with the system.
"I don't want to make this into a profit thing," Todromovich said. "Everyone does this for the pure idea of learning and experience, I want to keep it pure."
