Woodleyside Lab has an listening and viewing room designed to the IEC 60268-13/ BS 6840-13 specification. It comfortable sits 5-6 listener/viewers in a controlled environment. The room has an acoustic reverberation time of around 0.3seconds, and a best case noise floor of around 22dBA (details on file)
The room is equipped with high-end examples of both audio and video equipment:
- Samsung 55” 4K TV
- LG 49” 4K TV
- Red RedRay 4K playback
- 4K bluray player with discs
- Primary reference stereo playback system of Naim Unitiqute, Naim 250/2DR power amp and ATC SCM11 monitor speakers
- Full 5.1.4 Dolby Atmos playback system from Pioneer, which can be extended to 7.1.6
- Low-end 5.1 playback system
Primary lab test equipment includes:
- Video/imaging test equipment including Klein, XRite, Gossen measurement equipment
- Audio test equipment including Prism, Audiomatica, and HP
- RF generation/encode for AM/FM/DAB/DAB+ and video standards such as DVBT
- Power generation and analysis equipment from Newtons4th
- RF spectrum analysis, generation, scopes, arbitrary signal generation
- Noise measurement and analysis systems from Casella.
- IEC calibrated artificial ear from GRAS including the 2016 new ear design
- Weights and dimensions including fully traceable reference weights from Kern
Other lab equipment includes full audio recording capabilities to professional standards: SoundDevices 788T, SoundField ST350 B-format, Schoeps omni microphones, Royer stereo ribbon microphones. This has been used to record at Abbey Road Studio 1, Air Studios etc within the last 12 months.
Video equipment includes access to Red camera with full lens set.
Lab photo studio includes Nikon D3X and D800 cameras, lenses from 12mm to 300mm, lighting from Bowens and Arri, with overhead rail system. Professional publication grade photography performed on almost all products that are tested.