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Client installations
People who truly know, choose Procella Audio loudspeakers
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David
Crozier - former Head of Audio Post Production on Harry Potter and
Mission Impossible movies bought a Procella Standard system for his
unique Cabin Cinema in his Oxfordshire garden. The system consist of
three P815 screen channels, four P8 surrounds and two P15 subwoofers.
"Working in the film industry as production sound mixer for many years,
the challenge of recording artistes dialogue has been my main focus. It
is very important to find a loudspeaker system that reproduces dialogue
exactly as it was recorded. Procella systems faithfully reproduce the
original audio without colouration," said David Crozier. "Every
installation of Procella is overseen by both Anders Uggelberg and
Gerben Van Duyl who will provide design advice for installation and
acoustic treatment of the viewing room. I have listened extensively to
Procella systems and look forward to hearing my work on this excellent
speaker system."
Crozier's Cabin Cinema in the garden
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DTS Europe installed a Procella Extended system in their DTS Theatre
The DTS Theatre in Twyford, outside London, UK
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specific requirements for the DTS Theatre asked for a medium size room
of about 30 seats, with superior audio and video capabilities from both
cinema and home entertainment sources, such as 35mm film, e-Cinema, and
movies and music from DVD, in every existing DTS surround sound format.
On top of that, the room had to be capable of taking in new
technologies as they would come along, such as the expected Digital
Cinema (DCI) standard and new optical disc formats such as HD DVD and
Blu-ray Disc.
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The
first compromise that needed to be found was the type of speakers and
the layout of the speaker system. With the different requirements from
the cinema and the home entertainment side of the company, DTS needed a
speakers system that could handle both with equal capability and
prowess. As no such speaker system could be found in the market, Anders
and his colleague Gerben Van Duyl decided to design the speakers
himself, based on the exacting requirements of the DTS Theatre. Rather
than compromising ‘down’ to a lowest common denominator,
the design was aimed ‘up’ at the highest common denominator
between the cinema and home entertainment requirements. Taking the best
of both cinema speaker design and HiFi home speaker design, Anders
improved on both through meticulous acoustic design, careful selection
of the very best driver components, sophisticated mathematical modeling
and finally, performance testing and optimising. This design was
finalised and built by a specialist speaker factory in Sweden and
installed in the DTS theatre in the summer of 2005.
DTS Theatre, Procella speakers being installed
The
system was based around a few key principles: the use of identical
speakers for the screen channels and for the surround channels
providing 'identical voices' around the room; the use of closed box
cabinets for superior transient response and group delay
characteristics compared to bass reflex cabinets; the use of a constant
directivity waveguide and carefully matched crossovers for superior
dispersion characteristics; the use of a three way system using ideal
components for bass, mid and high; the use of professional quality,
high-efficiency drive units capable of superior dynamic range and
ultimately SPL (if so desired); the use of professional audio
controllers or Digital Signal Processors (DSP) which control all of the
audio in the room and allow very detailed fine-tuning of the acoustical
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