On Day Four, the final day of High End 2019, I experienced a couple of very interesting multi-channel music demonstrations.

Musikelectronic Geithain presented a 5.1 surround system in a large room.  The system consisted of three ML 811K1 speakers for the left center and right channels, a pair of ME 804K speakers for the left and right surround channels and an Basis 14K subwoofer. Amplification was by RL-Amplifiers.  The multichannel source was from Merging Technologies, and consisted of the MERGING+NADAC, the MERGING+CLOCK with a MERGING+POWER power supply.  The acoustic treatments were from Artnovion.  The system filled the large room with authority on the live multi-channel orchestral, opera and jazz recordings demonstrated.

PMC demonstrated Dolby Atmos versions of two of Miles Davis's classic jazz albums, "Kind of Blue" and "Sketches of Spain."  A 20-channel Atmos system was used which included PMCs Fenestra speakers for the left, right and center channels.  The system put you in the studio with the musicians.  When the familiar 2-channel version was played it sounded flat and lifeless by comparison.  This was very impressive indeed.

Here are the Day Four pictures:

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