Sound more real than reality

"The set, with its enclosed turntable and its panel of buttons and switches which Mrs Duke was forbidden to dust, stood at one end of the room. At the other end in opposite corners stood the two mammoth speakers half as high as a man, with polished cabinets and gold mesh grills out of which sound more real than reality poured forth to penetrate the eardrums and the brain into the very core of the soul itself ..."

-Godfrey Duke's hi-fi in Monica Dickens' The Heart Of London