INSTALL PIONEER Rethinking home entertainment installations: architectural rendering of project under way featuring Island Prestige
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42 JULY 2021
THE L WORD Dr Christian Heil, President & Founder, L-Acoustics, in an exclusive EI interview from our Install Pioneer Series. In this issue we present part two. Tell us a little about the HQ in Highgate, how can installers and visitors get to experience the systems for themselves? Our Highgate immersive sound space is now open to visitors by appointment. We welcome integrators, music industry executives, musicians, potential clients, and members of media on a daily basis. The sonically curious can get in touch via the contact form on our website l-acoustics-creations. com /contact. We look forward to introducing you to the space for a moment of pleasure and escape. Our immersive sound spaces in Paris and Los Angeles are also equipped to host visitors who want to experience our technology. Please get in touch.
What is next for the brand in the home and out on the live circuit? Any new products being worked on? Beginning with live sound, we are looking forward to the rollout of our new full range loudspeaker K3 which fills a space in our product range between the impressive K2 used on major tours, and Kara II, a perennial bestseller. It’s an ideal speaker for the restart where show capacity may be reduced in some instances as we gradually and safely return to the live events we love. We are also eager to see Contour XO, an IEM developed in collaboration with Jerry Harvey’s team at JH Audio, serve live sound engineers on tour and in the field. Many have related that they view it as a valuable tool to reproduce the L-Acoustics sonic signature either at the mixing desk or in preparation for a tour. In addition to this
professional use, we view Contour XO as a true full bandwidth Hi-Fi in-ear to enjoy music in Hi-Res anytime, anywhere. We recently released L-ISA Studio, software that enables object-based mixing on a laptop with binaural emulation. This greatly simplifies production of content in L-ISA Immersive Hyperreal Sound and allows users to output that content in multiple formats. I’d encourage sonic creators to explore our 30-day free trial at l-isa-immersive.com/create. Returning to L-Acoustics Creations specifically, in our view, we offer the right technology at the perfect time, a time when audio is cool again. In the past few weeks or months, every major music streaming service has made an announcement that they will be offering Hi-Res or spatial audio moving forward. This is a massive leap forward after having
Christian in conversation with Guillaume Le Nost, Executive Director of Creative Technologies (left), and Sherif el Barbari, Director of L-ISA labs. In 2011, Christian assembled this core team to begin exploring the spatial audio technology that would become L-ISA Immersive Hyperreal Sound
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