For as long as Daniel Chattin has been building stereos, he's thought that hi-fi sound was not high enough. Chattin has invented what he says is the solution to what he considers the fundamental problem of audio reproduction: its failure to make listeners feel that they're at the concert, inches from the singer or the symphony. His invention, a patent-pending series of devices that create the "Chattin effect," produces what he believes is the most high-fidelity sound ever made.

The invention itself is a series of "magic boxes," as one customer put it, that connects a music player to amplifiers, speakers and subwoofers. Completely of Chattin's own creation, these devices bring into focus the signal that, in the technology currently in use, gets scrambled on its way to the speaker, he said, because of the way electrons behave traveling inside the wires.

This "hyperanalog technology," as Chattin calls it, could have broad implications for the music world, he said.