Of course, a pandemic came along to disrupt the rollout of showrooms and private builds, but the brand has most certainly now hit top gear, and purpose-built showrooms are emerging both locally and abroad.

Thanh Tung Audio, a home audio specialist in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, has recently created a high-end space to provide its customers with the ultimate environment for experiencing HARMAN Luxury Audio's solutions for home cinema and stereo listening. 

The dazzling new showroom consists of seven separate listening rooms. Two are dedicated to home cinema, one to stereo listening, and three feature both. The rooms offer the opportunity to experience a range of speakers, subwoofers, amplifiers, processors, and more from JBL Synthesis, Mark Levinson, Revel, JBL, and ARCAM. The crown jewel of the showroom, however, is the JBL Synthesis Experience Center, a high-end home cinema featuring a certified JBL Synthesis Dolby Atmos surround system that delivers an immersive audio experience. 

Nguyen Thanh Tung, Manager at Thanh Tung Audio, told StereoNET:

With Vietnam rapidly transforming into a tech hub akin to Singapore, it has become increasingly important for us to provide new and existing customers across the Southeast Asia region with a unique space to experience these products first-hand for both analog and digital audio, whether it's watching a movie, streaming HiFi music, or enjoying jazz or classical music on vinyl. As the star of the show, we wanted the top of the line in our Experience Center. We needed a complete system that could be custom tailored to the Center's size and acoustics to deliver a jaw-dropping immersive audio experience for visitors. To meet these requirements, JBL Synthesis was an easy choice.

The JBL Synthesis Experience Center utilises three flagship SCL-1 dual 12-inch LCR loudspeakers for the cinema's front right, left, and centre channels. Four SCL-4 2-way in-wall speakers are being used for the surround channels, while four SCL-5 2-way in-ceiling speakers deliver the Dolby Atmos experience. The SCL-1 utilises the patented JBL D2430K dual 3-inch compression driver tweeter with its HDI waveguide and 12-inch cast-frame woofers, while the SCL-4 and SCL-5 utilise the patented JBL 2410H 1-inch compression driver and 7-inch Advanced Aluminum Matrix cone woofers. The result is a seamless surround sound experience that covers the entire room. 

Thanh Tung Audio relies on JBL Synthesis' flagship SSW-1 dual 15-inch passive subwoofer to deliver powerful bass. The system is completed by an SDP-75 immersive surround sound processor, seven S820 stereo audio amplifiers, an SDEC-4500P 12-channel digital equaliser, and a DSi 2.0 MA4-D 4-channel power amplifier. The company calibrated the surround system using the SDP-75's built-in room calibration function. 

HARMAN Luxury Audio offers JBL Synthesis Certified System and Certified Elite System certification programs for systems ranging from small-scale, intimate rooms to large-scale, high-channel-count immersive spaces. The program mandates specified calibration services and processes, while acoustically proven tuning methods guarantee in-room performance. The Certified Elite System program is designed for more challenging room environments and more expansive and complex setups, such as the system in the JBL Synthesis Experience Center. Thanh Tung Audio's immersive surround system is one of the first in the world to earn the custom, laser-etched face plate denoting its status as a Certified Elite System.

Thanh Tung added:

Our new showroom officially opened recently, and our customers have been thrilled with the new space and the unique experiences it offers them. Not surprisingly, our JBL Synthesis Experience Center quickly became the main attraction and also reaffirms our position as a leading audio provider in the region.

Do check it out if you can, or seek out a JBL Synthesis showroom near you.

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