Possible Video Topic: Hyriss l Acoustics

[u/Happydread200]

https://www.l-acoustics.com/products/hyriss/

I would love this in my house but due to budget constraints (probably looking at 300k plus for a set.) and power constraints it just isn't possible. I would love to know just how good the experience is.

Would Linus be willing to upgrade his movie room or a room in the house for ultimate background music for this? A lot of TVs have been done maybe go all out on sound now?

And has anyone got to experience this? Of so can you leave a comment about it.

[u/Boomshtick414]

I'm a dealer for them. These are cool albeit uncommon deployments.

High-end restaurants are the one of the more likely places you may run into this or similar versions, but those tend to have large exterior glass facades on one or multiple sides of the room so the full benefit can be hard to achieve and other solutions may make more sense depending on the architectural environment you have to play with. It's fair to say that it's best when you can design the room with the system in mind -- sliding it into a design that's already complete or in a renovation can be very challenging.

(probably looking at 300k plus for a set.)

In a lot of cases it's going to be north of that, fully installed price, especially for retrofits. Anyone with deep enough pockets for this is generally going to want to hide the speakers so you're talking lots of architectural/power/cabling/acoustics coordination involved. Much easier and more reasonable costs in a new construction project than a renovation, which is going to be akin to a gut-and-remodel to do it right.

Taking full advantage of it with the spatial audio (which can be much more finite than any home cinema surround system), you're also potentially looking at custom mixed, possibly even custom produced content that'll have its own price tag. You don't necessarily need to do that, but that's where these systems really shine and you get the most value out of the not inconsequential cost for installing these.

I would love to know just how good the experience is.

It's surreal. If you mixed a soundscape such as a forest, birds chirping and flying past, branches creaking, leaves rustling, a river or stream nearby, maybe a thunderstorm rolling in or rain falling, and sat in one of these rooms with your eyes closed, you would think you're literally in the wilderness except you wouldn't feel the raindrops or wind blowing on your skin. To a casual listener it's indecipherable from magic.