Apple has recently established a 150 m2 showroom in Paris, and both TC Electronic and Dynaudio Acoustics play important roles in the audio setup. The EBC Show room is suited for a lot of different applications, including internal meetings and Logic Pro training. Therefore, a versatile, high-performance HD audio and video system was required.
Apple requested a full digital setup all the way from the computers to the monitoring systems, so TC Electronic’s Konnekt x32, was the obvious choice for ensuring a maximum of flexibility regarding the routing of digital audio signals in a variety of different standards and formats. In essence, Konnekt x32 is a versatile patchbay and converter that is capable of handling any digital audio signal.
The speaker systems in the EBC show room also needed to accept digital input signals, and after testing many systems, the sheer quality and great sound of Dynaudio’s AIR and BM monitor series swept away all other competitors.
The full EBC room is equipped with two Dynaudio AIR 25, one AIR 20 for the LCR channel, one AIR BASE 24 sub and four AIR 12 monitors, enabling the system to handle 5.1 surround sound completely within the digital domain via the AES protocol. Further, the AIR remote makes the system switchable between surround and stereo mode as well as between various user presets stored within the system. Also, when the room is divided, a smaller 5.1 surround system – consisting of Dynaudio BM5A speakers and a BM9S subwoofer – is available.
Both the Dynaudio AIR system and the BM5A system are installed around a Panasonic 103’’ plasma screen, and both systems receive input signals from Digital Konnekt x32 that controls and converts all incoming ADAT/SPDIF/TOS LINK signals to AES, which it distributes to the digital 5.1 surround sound systems.
Further, Apple’s show room can be divided into two parts – 1/3 and 2/3 of the full size respectively. When divided, the room is partitioned by a mobile, acoustic wall providing 47db of attenuation, which means that both parts of the room can be used simultaneously for different activities, and in fact, the new facility in Paris is the largest Apple 5.1 surround sound installation in the world!
TC Electronic and Dynaudio are very proud to be delivering the audio equipment to the EBC show room that demands nothing but the very finest in the world of digital audio and would like to thank Apple for their excellent choice.
