Meyer Sound Brings Immersive Audio to Shanghai Museum of Astronomy Programs

The new visual programs offered by the Shanghai Museum of Astronomy, inaugurated a few months ago in this city of China, are complemented by linear sound reproduction and immersive technology of Meyer Sound.

Opened in 2021 and considered one of the best in the world to contemplate the stars, the Shanghai Museum of Astronomy offers in its 39.000 m2 near 300 exhibitions and 120 different collections, which also makes it one of the largest in the world today, as part of the Lingang New Town Science and Technology Museum Complex .

Built by the prestigious New York firm Ennead Architects, in what he invested five years, this planetarium offers a unique and spectacular design, in which no lines or right angles are contemplated to simulate the geometry of the universe, which has also been awarded three stars in the so-called China Green Building System (more details on Digital AV).

That is why it is structured in three main ways: the Oculus, the Inverted Dome and the Sphere, that function as astronomical elements to follow the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. These exhibition areas now offer stellar visual programs that are complemented by immersive audio systems from the manufacturer Meyer Sound, that have been supplied by Shanghai Broad Future Electro Technology.

Occupying the interior of the Sphere is the so-called Dome Theatre 8K, with the capacity to 250 people, in which a twenty-minute show is offered that covers 4.600 millions of years of cosmic evolution.

Designed with the system prediction tool MAPP 3D by Meyer Sound, the immersive audio system of the theater consists of 32 Speakers UPJ-1P of this manufacturer surrounding the dome, of 20 metre, on three levels.

specifically, a group of four 900-LFC subwoofers offers low frequency emphasis, while three-dimensional spatial sound trajectories are created with the Spacemap in CueStation. In addition, are available up to 64 audio program source tracks from the recording/playback module DWTRX of the digital audio platform D-Mitri.

the Optical planetarium, located within the so-called zone Home, combines realistic recreations of constellations and planetary movements, with a film about nature and the universe.

In this program, the audio system surrounds the audience with 36 Speakers UPJunior on four levels, again augmented by four 900-CFL subwoofers for low frequency effects. Speaker optimization is provided by a network platform Galaxy 408 and two Galaxy 816.

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