The institutional division of Warren Financial Service, WFS Funds, provides alternative investment strategies for high net-worth investors, foundations, endowments, and family offices.

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The closest most of us can get to WFS is in video-game parlors where each player wears headphones that provide a sense of space, place and movement.

NPR: IRCAM: The Quiet House Of Sound

To hear the effect of wave field synthesis, you have to be inside a WFS hall, where no matter where you're sitting you're enveloped but not deafened by the sound those carefully placed speakers produce.

NPR: IRCAM: The Quiet House Of Sound

Another technique IRCAM is developing uses scores of small speakers lined up around the concert hall to create something called wave field synthesis, or WFS. It was designed to address a problem that's been brought to IRCAM over and over again: dead spots in concert halls.

NPR: IRCAM: The Quiet House Of Sound