Client Background
Our Challenge
The Agera Group was tasked to kit out the brand new main boardroom in the Sony Music group building.
Strategy & approach
Sony’s main boardroom is equipped with an 11.2 Channel surround system with quality in-wall and in-ceiling speakers. The system is fully capable of playing back Auro3D and Atmos Surround codecs.
This also allows for intelligent up-mixing capabilities to enable a stereo file to be played back in Auro3D and Atmos surround through means of 7.2.4 encoding.
In the same sense, this will allow down-mixing capabilities when surround files decode into stereo format.
The sound system was calibrated through means of using both passion and tech, as a musical ear served a strong baseline, and SMAART software shaping the finest details of the sound, to provide the rich quality sound all variety of genres would require.
The equipment includes:
- The Marantz AV7705 11.2 Surround Sound Processor and the necessary amplifiers.
- B&W CWM 8,3D In-Wall, B&W CWM 8,5 front high, and B&W CCM682 In-Ceiling speakers.
- 2 B&W ISW-4 In-Ceiling Subwoofers installed with B&W amplifiers.
The artist or client would be able to playback the file from either a laptop or phone through means of HDMI, Spotify, Bluetooth, and all music streaming services running on HEOS.
The boardroom also allows for Teams conference meetings: Were a UVC800 Yealink system installed at Sony Music allows for team meetings with clients all over the world.
- The meetings can be controlled through means of a Yealink touch panel with an additional microphone and camera controls.
- During the conference call, the meeting attendees will also have full control over the sound system through means of a Crestron touch panel.
The solution was divided into three main parts:
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- Video and video conferencing
- Audio
- Control