Theoretica Applied Physics BACCH-SP adio Stereo Purifier

By: Andrew Quint

Not Multichannel, and Doesn’t Want to Be

I’m pretty sure that Edgar Choueiri is the smartest person I’ve ever met. He’s a tenured professor of Applied Physics at Princeton who has, for more than 25 years, run the University’s NASA-funded Electric Propulsion and Plasma Dynamic Laboratory. Just about every interview or article about Choueiri that I’ve encountered delights in noting that he’s an “actual rocket scientist,” or something to that effect. He’s fluent in four languages, an expert in ancient Greek vases, an amateur magician, and a practitioner of Zajal, a centuries-old Arabic form of improvised chanted debate. Edgar Choueiri is also a self-described audio nerd, which distinguishes him from all the other Ivy League astrophysicists I know.

If you visit Dr. Choueiri’s EPPDyL facility, after admiring the two enormous rocket engines set up in a large, high ceilinged, garage-like space, you can exit via a discreet side door to enter Choueiri’s other academic realm, Princeton’s 3D Audio…