OPINION : L - Acoustics is anaudio party you ’re probably unfamiliar with , but its reach extend far . At most live concerts hold around the humankind , you ’ve credibly see the sound of your favored player through its line array speakers . Those come out up in central London – the one that ’s opposite Tottenham Court Road Station ? Its speakers are there too .
The party has come up with a novel joke for its 40th birthday , a system they ’re calling HYRISS . I was invite over to its office in Highgate to give it a listen , and quite frankly , I do n’t think I ’ve find out a system quite like it .
It ’s not the first time I ’ve been to L - Acoustics ’ offices , but this is the first prison term since it revamped its listening space . When I first date the ‘ old ’ elbow room , there were speakers dotted across the bulwark and a preposterous telephone number of subwoofer lining the trading floor . You could see the organisation and point out where the sound was coming from .
With its redesign elbow room , the speakers and subwoofers have all but disappeared , hidden into the walls . You ca n’t see where the auditory sensation is coming from , which makes it harder to station – audio is less guiding than it seems to emanate from the walls as if the whole elbow room were a talker .
Within the wall is the HYRISS scheme ( which stands for Hyperreal Immersive Sound Spaces ) the next leaping onward for L - Acoustics ’ phone engineering science .
By have away the strong-arm form of a speaker unit , it want you to concentrate on the sound itself – a bit like how theSamsung Music Frameis both a piece of art and a speaker .
But HYRISS is n’t all about flood the room with sound , the intention is to start with silence – to block out any audio from the outside reality to the point where you ’re almost experiencing a vacuum of sound – like randomness - cancelling earpiece – and from there on its about transmute the place you ’re in .
It ’s one of those healthy systems that you have to take heed to to the full understand the force because it relies on your sense of hearing and sensing of sound . But in essence , HYRISS can dynamically adapt the acoustics of a room through the technologies it integrates , which includes L - Acoustics L - ISA speakers , plus its Ambiance and Anima technologies .
In the words of the presenter on the 24-hour interval , with the HYRISS sound organisation you could transform a way into a concert hall .
And the demonstration were amazing . Australian piano player Belle Chen dropped in to run a piece of music but the first go around , the notes did n’t fathom quite proper to her ( though to my ears they sounded hunky-dory , I ’ll trust her nous ) .
With the crush of a button on a remote , this small way turned into the sound of a vast concert hall , and the tonicity of the forte-piano sounded dissimilar , there was reverb and echoes as if we ’d been transported to a different place even though we had n’t agitate a centimetre from our tail .
With a magazine of Lady Gaga singing Shallow in A Star is Born , it sound less like a cinematic experience and more like a unrecorded concert is exact piazza . The clarity , particular and resolution of the auditory sensation are off the chart .
Another presentment shows a arena in Korea , playing the music of John Williams conducted by Gustavo Dudamel . The adept is like being surround by the orchestra – you ’re capable to place where instruments are to the point where if you have a intense imagination , you may be capable to close your heart and visualise what this 100 - piece orchestra would look like , so high is the level information the HYRISS system can reproduce .
The last experience was that of the strait of a night club , and after about twenty sec I felt if I started talking I ’d have to abuse and develop that husky ‘ nightclub ’ vocalization that you get .
So much accent is placed on visuals , but this HRYISS auditory sensation system makes it clear-cut that sound can have the biggest encroachment .
George Lucas once said that sound is half the experience but the HYRISS finger as if it was penny-pinching to 100 % of the experience . It ’s a sound system that can take you anywhere from the consolation of your own home with the swipe of a silver screen on an iPad . I have no estimate how much it all costs , but if you ’re recollect about the Leontyne Price , then you almost certainly ca n’t afford it .
