Best Home Cinema ◆ Level III

Zene Private Theater

Home cinema or, er, spaceship? A bit of both, perhaps, courtesy of Beijing’s Zene Private Theater, delivering this amazing Shanghai theatre where we are told the client personally supervised the quality of the architectdesigned room decoration and “each part of the room has been changed at least twice to make everything perfect”. While acoustic treatment was

incorporated, the room design left little room for subwoofer placement so all four subs were placed in the front baffle wall, and no separate equipment room was allowed at the back so the Sony projector is situated inside the viewing room. Still, we reckon the Meyer Sound EXP cinema speaker Atmos system should be able to cover any fan noise...