Meyer Sound brings immersive audio to Shanghai Astronomy Museum

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

Inaugurated in 2021 and considered one of the best in the world for stargazing, he Shanghai Astronomy Museum offers in its 39.000 m2 about 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, what he invested five years in, This planetarium offers a unique and spectacular design, in which lines or right angles are not 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 in Digital AV).

Therefore 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. Stellar visual programs are now offered in these exhibition areas, complemented by immersive audio systems from the manufacturer Meyer Sound, which have been supplied by Shanghai Broad Future Electro Technology.

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

Designed with system prediction tool MAPP 3D de Meyer Sound, The theater's immersive audio system consists of 32 speakers UPJ-1P from this manufacturer that surround the dome, of 20 metros, on three levels.

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

He 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-LFC subwoofers for low frequency effects. Speaker optimization provided by a network platform Galaxy 408 and two Galaxy 816.