Island Prestige

BY L-ACOUSTICS CREATIONS The ultimate sonic experience for music, home cinema & more

If you’ve been to a live concert or music festival in the last three decades, the chances are you’ve heard an L-Acoustics sound system. Founded in 1984 near Paris, L-Acoustics excels in research and development, leading innovation to shape the future of sound in the premium professional audio industry. From the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles to the BBC Proms in London, performing arts centres and festivals worldwide rely upon L-Acoustics to provide unforgettable sonic experiences.

In addition to working with the world’s premiere venues and touring artists, L-Acoustics has launched a new division and product line, L-Acoustics Creations, for adventurous audiophiles and luxury home theatre aficionados. L-Acoustics Creations enables listeners to “bring the concert home,” and with the release of a revolutionary immersive sound space, Island Prestige, they have made this a reality.

Island Prestige is designed to be the ultimate and uncompromised personal audio experience, bringing concert-grade immersive audio technology and visionary interior design into the heart of your home. This sleek 360° listening lounge, handcrafted in the L-Acoustics ateliers in France, delivers up to 24,000 watts in 23.1 sound built discreetly into a modular seating area for perfect comfort and enjoyment.

Island integrates seamlessly with standard home entertainment systems and media.

Music lovers can choose between high-definition formats and streaming services or enhanced spatial audio for thrilling immersion. Paired with a screen, Island offers a hyperreal movie or gaming hub in formats such as surround sound, DTS or Dolby Atmos.

For a listening experience which elevates music into the realm of museum-worthy works of art, L-Acoustics proposes a futuristic concept: Bubbles. Bubbles are a playback medium unlike anything you’ve ever heard before. Refusing to accept the commoditisation of musical content through streaming platforms and mass consumption, with Bubbles, L-Acoustics Creations places science and technology in the service of art, offering a welcome view of music as original creation, an exclusive and emotional connection to the senses.

A Bubble is a crystalline orb which stores limited edition works in the highest original master-quality audio files presented in a spatial audio resolution beyond human perception. A Bubble provides both a surreal personal experience and an elegant conversation piece. The Bubble Deck, the dedicated host for Bubbles, is designed for simplicity of use thanks to an iPad player app or an elegant controller with basic functions to play or pause favourite recordings. Place a Bubble on the Bubble Deck and a magical journey begins. The sensation is one of proximity and detail so natural and realistic that it feels like being there, as if teleporting to the recording studio mixing console or the conductor’s podium in your favorite theatre or concert hall.

“I like to think of sound as time travel,” explains Dr. Christian Heil, a quantum physicist who followed his passion for sound and music to found L-Acoustics. “When sound is true and credible, it speaks to the mind, memory and the senses like nothing else. With Island, I can enter another time and place. I can bring a classical pianist–or the Amazon rainforest–into my living room.”

Island Prestige can be experienced in L-Acoustics Creations immersive sound spaces in Paris, London, or Los Angeles, with additional locations in Moscow (Russia) and Guangzhou (China) coming soon.

To learn more about L-Acoustics Creations cutting-edge sound technologies, visit l-acoustics-creations.com