Immersive audio at the world’s largest astronomy museum – AV Magazine

The Shanghai Astronomy Museum, the largest in the world devoted to the celestial sciences, has been equipped with Meyer Sound immersive audio systems in its two main venues.

Designed by Ennead Architects of New York, the 39,000 square metre museum, with its curvilinear exterior devoid of any straight lines or right angles, encloses three main exhibition zones Home, Cosmos, and Odyssey with the free-flowing architecture encompassing three dominant architectural features: Oculus, Inverted Dome, and Sphere.

Occupying the interior of the Sphere is an 8K Dome Theater, which hosts an audience of 250 for a 20-minute all-enveloping spectacle covering 4.6 billion years of cosmic evolution. Designed using Meyer Sounds MAPP 3D system design and prediction tool, the theatres immersive audio system comprises 32 Meyer Sound UPJ-1P loudspeakers that encircle the 20-meter dome in three tiers.

A cluster of four 900-LFC subwoofers delivers low-frequency emphasis, while three-dimensional spatial sound trajectories are created using the Spacemap feature in CueStation. Up to 64 tracks of audio program source are available from the DWTRX recording/playback module of the D-Mitri digital audio platform.

An Optical Planetarium, nestled inside the Home Zone, combines recreations of constellations and planetary movements with a film about nature and the universe. Here the audio system encircles the audience with 36 UPJunior loudspeakers on four levels, again augmented by four 900-LFC subwoofers for low-frequency effects. Loudspeaker optimization is provided by one GALAXY 408 and two GALAXY 816 Network Platforms.

The Shanghai Astronomy Museum is currently the largest museum focused on the astronomical sciences in the world, and we are honoured to be part of the project, says Zhu Sihai, managing director of Shanghai Broad Future Electro Technology which supplied the audio system.

The linear sound reproduction and immersive technologies offered by Meyer Sound help make the experience here unique and breathtaking. We expect to bring this heightened level of experience to more venues around the country.

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