"trinaural" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1957, Philip K. Dick, Eye in the Sky:",
          "text": "The Hamilton Trinaural Sound System. Remember the night we dreamed that up? Three cartridges, needles, amplifiers, speakers. Mounted in three rooms. A man in each room, listening to each rig.",
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          "ref": "2004, Henry H. Mitchell, Black Church Beginnings:",
          "text": "The talking drum held under the arm had soft sides that yielded three different tonal pitches, high, middle, and low, according to the pressure of the arm. This amounted to a “Morse Code” with three signals — a trinaural rather than a binaural system.",
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