![]() Reader, I have heard the most high-performing and immersive home theater demo ever delivered at High End Munich and 20 minutes in that dark, speaker-and-screen-filled room wasn't long enough. If you want my full appraisal, you'll find it in the missive I called " Whoever said money can't buy happiness never had a Perlisten/Dirac home theater", but for a potted description of what you could have, read on. But incredible, beautiful madness.Īccording to chartered surveyors Kingfisher Associates, it took 28 weeks to refurbish and fit out the existing Grade 2 listed building in London's Soho Square and the entire project cost a reported £3.2 million.Īnyone want to give my humble London apartment the Ray Dolby professional screening room treatment? I've no room for the Atmos Genelec mixing suite as well, but I'd be so grateful for a super-souped up movie room. My need to return to Dolby's room is like a hunka hunka burnin' love… Perlisten/Dirac home theater, High End (Munich, Germany) The basis of the mix is a 9.1 system – so known territory to sound engineers and mixers – but there are also up to 128 active audio objects which can be flown anywhere around the speaker setup and are added on top. Sit here at your peril – and I don't blame him. One of TechRadar's long-term contributors and an esteemed member of the audio press, Steve May, has a special seat he earmarks in this theater. ![]() Simply put, it is as perfect a neutral listening environment as I've experienced to date. The cushion-like silence as you go into this room is actually quite striking and is testament to the extensive acoustic treatment no corners have been cut here. Other equipment includes a Christie 4K digital projector, Kinoton film projector, 28 stereo Crown amplifiers and a Dolby Lake EQ system.ĭolby's full Atmos system uses up to 64 loudspeaker tracks, and in this venue there are drivers along the side walls and behind you, plus a pair of subwoofers for low frequency content actually suspended from the ceiling, five loudspeakers behind the screen (a central one and two either side) plus two rows of speakers running along the ceiling from the rear of the theatre to the screen for that overhead sound – thanks to Ben Shirley for this extra information. Dolby Soho was designed in collaboration with specialist Munro Acoustics and, according to the professional audio news site Fast-and-Wide, this home theater includes 36 JBL speakers – 26 dedicated to surround-sound.
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