I was recently treated to a highly exclusive tour of Samsung’s Audio Lab in California. This is where many of the brand’s audio products – from wireless speakers and soundbars to the sound systems of its TVs – are tuned, and also where a huge amount of research is conducted into the future of home audio. I speak from experience when I say that it’s run and staffed by some of the brightest and most music-obsessed people I’ve ever met, and in each room we entered I was introduced to yet more brilliant engineers and intriguing technology.
The room I’m most concerned with here is one that was packed with Genelec studio monitor speakers. I regret to say that I didn’t count the number of speakers in the room but, looking back at my photos I can see that there were 10 across the front – five at seated ear-height, two mounted in a row above and three on the floor. I think there was a similar quantity of speakers behind and to the sides of the seating position, so we’re talking about a system consisting of roughly twenty speakers. And that’s not including subwoofers, of which there were four across the front. I’ve been in lots of speaker-filled rooms in my time, but this one took the biscuit.
