Meyer Sound Stories that include EXP

ArcLight La Jolla Installs Meyer Sound in New Wide Screen Auditorium 

Opened in late 2012, ArcLight Cinemas' newest location in La Jolla, Calif., offers discerning patrons the ultimate movie-going experience with ArcLight Wide Screen, a state-of-the-art auditorium concept. The premium theatre features a 50-foot curved screen, 3D-capable 4K projection, and immersive Dolby Atmos audio reproduced through a Meyer Sound system based on the Acheron screen channel loudspeakers. Read More »

Meyer Sound Brings Power and Subtlety to Refurbished Cinema at Walker Art Center 

Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minn. is considered one of the nation's leading contemporary art museums. Following a wall-to-wall renovation, the building's 332-seat cinema re-opened this past summer, and its new Meyer Sound system was introduced to Twin Cities filmgoers during a showing of independent feature "Beasts of the Southern Wild" with critical acclaim. Read More »

Review of Meyer Sound System at 2012 Telluride Film Festival: "So Incredible, So Crisp" 

At the 2012 Telluride Film Festival in the scenic Colorado ski town, a school gymnasium was once again skillfully transformed into a world-class screening room named the Galaxy. Here, a Meyer Sound system based on Acheron screen channel loudspeakers played an instrumental part in creating an environment that left a favorable impression on festival guest director and English writer Geoff Dyer, who selected several film revivals for this year's event. Read More »

A Reminder from John Meyer in Cinema Technology Magazine: Why Linear Loudspeakers Matter for Emerging Multichannel Sound Formats 

As new multichannel surround formats like Dolby Atmos and Auro 11.1 from Barco are moving to the forefront as the next big opportunity to enhance the movie experience, it is easy to overlook that this new level of sonic immersion and impact is tied to the quality and power handling capabilities of the loudspeakers through which the soundtrack is reproduced. Read More »

44.1 Supplies Two French Film Post Facilities with Meyer Sound EXP Monitoring 

Two of the most in-demand film post-production companies in Paris, Digimage Cinema and Piste Rouge, have recently equipped their key mixing and screening rooms with powerful and low-distortion EXP cinema audio systems from Meyer Sound. The systems were specified and installed by Paris-based 44.1, the leading French systems provider of high-end post-production facilities for film, video, and broadcast. Read More »

Meyer Sound EXP Powers Atmos & Three More GXL Theatres at Cinetopia Vancouver Mall 

One of the 14 theatres nationwide screening Pixar's "Brave" with Dolby's new Atmos immersive multi-channel surround format, Cinetopia's latest Vancouver Mall 23 in Washington state has chosen Meyer Sound EXP cinema loudspeaker systems to provide the linearity and headroom to intensify the audience experience. This new screening room is amongst the four GXL theatres that owner Rudyard Coltman has equipped with EXP in this brand new Cinetopia location. Read More »

Meyer Sound and NTi Introduce Cinema Meter Option for XL2 Handheld Analyzer 

Berkeley, Calif.-based Meyer Sound Laboratories and Liechtenstein-based NTi Audio AG have announced a new cinema meter option for NTi's XL2 handheld audio and acoustics analyzer. Developed through a collaborative effort by the two companies, the Meyer Sound cinema meter option and test script allows cinema sound technicians to calibrate loudspeaker systems efficiently and to an extremely high degree of precision—beyond what is recommended by basic SMPTE standards—using a small, easy-to-use handheld device. Read More »

Meyer Sound Announces EXP Demo Schedule for CinemaCon 2012 in Las Vegas 

Meyer Sound, the Berkeley, Calif.-based manufacturer known worldwide for its concert loudspeaker systems, will be demonstrating the EXP cinema systems in the Neopolitan I Ballroom throughout the CinemaCon show. Read More »

Meyer Sound Appoints 44.1 as First EXP Dealer in France 

Meyer Sound has announced the appointment of 44.1, based in the Paris suburb of Colombes, as the first French dealer for EXP cinema audio systems. 44.1 is one of four recent additions to the Meyer Sound EXP distribution network, which also includes ACS Distributions in Pomona, Calif.; Audio Intervisual Design, Inc. in West Hollywood, Calif.; and FTT (Film Ton Technik Hannsdieter Rüttgers GmbH) in Düsseldorf, Germany. Read More »

Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope Adds Three Meyer Sound EXP Systems (with Video) 

Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope film studios, located in California's Napa Valley, has installed Meyer Sound EXP cinema sound systems in three new rooms, including an ADR stage, ADR control room, and a screening room. Consistent EXP monitoring will allow seamless translation between the new rooms and Zoetrope's existing re-recording stage, which in 2009 became the first facility of its kind to install a complete EXP system. Read More »