Space Museum gets TiMax2 SoundHub for Omnimax planetarium
Published: ASIA
CHINA: TiMax SoundHub HK and PRC distributors Sound Works Supplies recently designed and installed an Out Board TiMax2 SoundHub16 multi-channel delay matrix into Hong Kong’s Space Museum, which now offers visitors Omnimax planetarium system film experiences. The SoundHub16 acts as a surround system management and spatialisation processor for the museum’s Lecture Hall.
With the TiMax SoundHub’s built-in timeline cue programming and multi-channel playback server, any sound effects and music beds required for live performances can be easily created and edited.
In addition, a new d&b audiotechnik 7.1-channel surround sound system comprised of three E12D screen channels, two S18 subwoofers and four E8s was installed. These are driven by d&b D12 and D6 amplification, with two d&b M6s for mobile stage foldback support.
‘This upgrade is a significant departure from the previous simpler left/right channels of speakers and subs, and goes a bit further than just a conventional and cinema due to the multipurpose nature of the room and also a desire to offer a bit more of a special movie audience experience,’ said an Out Board representative.
‘Films such as Space Junk 3D, To The Arctic, and The Last Reef: Cities Beneath the Sea have their standard 7.1 audio enhanced by TiMax to provide a more immersive aural effect.’