I went on a field trip to this science center once with my school once and when they were showing the speakers I freaked the hell out, especially when the guy said "HERE" in a really deep voice
SAME. I always had to wait outside until this demo was over 'cause that bass guy freaked me out. This video doesn't really convey how it vibrated the whole theater.
I remember this. They had this at the MOSI science museum in Tampa, Florida. And my parents urged me to go into the Imax dome to see this. Naturally, as a younger child (I'm 21 years old as I write this), I didn't know what to expect. Was I scared? Yes. But when the voice got DEEP? I think I experienced my first anxiety attack.
I went to an omni-theater twice. I hated both times. I think it was a combination of megalophobia and microphobia. Plus, being that surrounded was VERY disorientating. At the same time, I've been to IMAX and I didn't mind that. So, being surrounded by the screen had to have messed with me somehow.
I remember this IMAX Preshow at the Marbles IMAX Theater (Raleigh, NC) which is a IMAX flat screen theater, which played the same preshow but the speakers are inside of the flatscreen and the giant IMAX speakers behind the theater, which is similar to AMC Theatres, Regal, Cinemark and other multiplex theatres which not played the preshow but only uses there policy trailers, feature presentations and finally the IMAX Countdown. Only museums, aquariums and other attractions have the IMAX Theater which plays the preshow and shows the speakers, such as IMAX flat screen, and the IMAX Dome (Omnimax).
I been to the 1st omnimax theater, and the first fear when I was little is the Speaker, so I went to the quiet room in 1996 or 1997. And 2004 I went to the Dome Theater twice and I was not scare at all, when he say "you're totally surrounded by these speakers. Here(left)..........here(right)..........here (Upper left)...........here(on top).........here(Upper right).........and here(center). The subbase are located HEEERRREEE(Massive Roar)" before my favorite film playing at Imax Dome is "Straight Up: Helicopter in Action" to feel the noise of the sub and surrounding speakers of the famous rotorcraft typical helicopter. Up next, the mighty steam and diesel locomotives will rock the sub and surrounding speakers of "Train Time: Burlington Northern Santa Fe".
1:19- the speaker units house JBL speakers but built by a company (defunct) Sonic Associates. the excat speaker model of JBL, that one i don't know...yet. anyone know the voice of narration for this?
From what I read, each of the 6 satellite speakers consists of full set of JBL speakers from treble to bass. 1x 2404H Ultra High-Frequency (Tweeter) 1x 2445J Wide-Range 2x 2123H High Power Low Frequency (Midrange) 2x 2245H? Medium Efficiency Extended Bass (Woofer) The sub bass is made up of 8x 2245Hs each in their own enclosure. Now, this is for the older IMAX speaker systems. I don't have any clue on the newer systems.
They got rid of the demonstration at Omnimax at Science World. When I saw the re-release of Dunkirk a few years ago they didn't have this intro video. Instead they simply turned on the lights behind the screen and the theatre usher gave us the stats for the sound system. This occurred when the theatre usher was giving us the instructions on where the exits the theatre were located.
Yeah, my first time at the omnimax at carnegie science center was cool, though the speaker reveal was a bit unexpected, freaky, and I've been obsessed with movie theater speaker systems ever since.