Meyer Sound Reference Audio Systems | Home Cinema & HiFi

The studio standard for film mixing and music mastering

Established 1979 · Berkeley, California · Used by Skywalker Sound, Pixar, Warner Bros, DreamWorks, 20th Century Fox · 100+ Patents · The Choice of Academy Award-Winning Sound Designers & Audiophiles

Meyer Sound is not a consumer speaker brand that happens to have professional applications. Meyer Sound is a professional sound engineering company that has expanded into luxury residential cinema and high-end audio — bringing 45+ years of film mixing studio technology, Oscar-winning studio partnerships, and breakthrough acoustic engineering directly into discerning homes.

Studio Heritage

Precision

Accuracy

Processing

Music Listening

A 45-Year Partnership with Hollywood

Meyer Sound’s history is inseparable from cinema itself. Founded by John Meyer in 1979, the company’s first major film project was building the original 650 subwoofer for Francis Ford Coppola’s groundbreaking 70mm theatrical release of Apocalypse Now in 1980. That achievement established Meyer Sound as the reference standard for film audio reproduction.

Today, Meyer Sound systems are installed in the sound mixing stages of every major film studio. If a blockbuster from Pixar, Warner Bros, DreamWorks, 20th Century Fox, or Lightstorm Entertainment is being mixed, it’s happening on Meyer Sound speakers. The directors, sound designers, and Academy Award-winning mixers who created this year’s Oscar winners all mixed on Meyer monitors.

When you install Meyer Sound in your home cinema, you’re installing the monitoring standard that shaped the soundtrack of modern cinema. Your home theater will reproduce films exactly as creators intended — no coloration, no compromise, no translation loss.

Meyer Sound in Hollywood’s Most Prestigious Facilities

Skywalker Sound, Marin County, California — George Lucas’s legendary post-production facility has earned 18 Academy Awards for Best Sound using Meyer Sound monitoring systems exclusively. Pixar Animation Studios — Pixar’s sound design team monitors on Meyer Sound systems. Warner Bros. Studios — multiple mixing stages use Meyer Sound cinema systems for the “truest translation of the film mix.” DreamWorks Animation uses Meyer monitoring exclusively for theatrical and streaming content. 20th Century Fox — the Newman Scoring Stage, where John Williams composes, is equipped with Meyer Sound Bluehorn reference monitors. Dolby World Headquarters also runs Meyer Sound systems, reflecting the deep technical partnership between the two companies.

The Meyer Bluehorn Reference Audio System

The Meyer Sound Bluehorn System represents a fundamental breakthrough in audio reproduction. After six years of intensive research, Meyer Sound achieved an unprecedented U.S. patent on proprietary digital signal processing technology that solves a problem that has plagued every loudspeaker since the beginning of audio reproduction: phase distortion.

All loudspeakers introduce phase shift — a fundamental acoustic flaw. When a signal enters a speaker, different frequencies arrive at different times. Highs are delayed, lows are advanced, and the midrange cancels. This phase distortion is invisible in frequency response charts but audible as loss of clarity, collapsed soundstage, and listening fatigue.

The Bluehorn System applies advanced digital modeling to achieve absolute phase accuracy across the entire audio bandwidth using patented DSP algorithms in the dedicated Bluehorn 816 processor, providing full-bandwidth (25 Hz to 22 kHz) phase correction. Bluehorn achieves linear amplitude and phase response across 27 Hz to 20 kHz — both simultaneously, which is extraordinary. Most reference monitors achieve linearity in either amplitude or phase, but not both across full bandwidth. Overall system latency is less than 50ms — notably fast for the processing needed to correct phase down to 25 Hz.

When you watch a film mixed on Meyer Sound Bluehorn in a Bluehorn-equipped home cinema, you hear exactly what the sound mixer heard: uncompromising dialogue clarity, three-dimensional soundstaging with film-mixing accuracy, timbral accuracy so instruments sound like instruments, and fatigue-free listening because there is zero phase distortion for your ears to compensate for.

Meyer Sound Cinema Series for Home Theater

Acheron Designer screen channel loudspeakers, developed in partnership with Skywalker Sound, deliver full-range, high-SPL cinema reproduction in a compact form factor. HMS Cinema Surround Systems (HMS-5, HMS-10, HMS-12, HMS-15) provide scalable immersive audio, all incorporating Meyer’s exclusive IntelligentDC technology for bi-amplified, self-powered performance with traditional installation ease. Cinema Subwoofers — the compact X-400C, high-power X-800C, and reference-grade X-1100C — integrate seamlessly with Meyer screen channel speakers, extending bass reproduction while maintaining phase coherency. And Ultra Reflex, Meyer’s newest innovation, is the first screen channel loudspeaker solution designed for direct-view LED, OLED or high-end LCD displays — for rooms where projection isn’t practical.

Case Study: Reference-Grade Multi-Position Sound, Megève

This 600m² Megève chalet — eight bedrooms, ski-in ski-out, an indoor pool and spa complex, its own heliport — runs its 4m curved-screen cinema on Trinnov rather than Meyer Sound, but it’s the clearest proof point we have of the exact problem reference-grade processing solves: a chalet cinema hosts a constantly changing roster of guests, and no single seat can be favoured over another. The full 11.4.2 Dolby Atmos array — five front channels behind the screen, surrounds level with each row, four subwoofers with three 10″ long-throw drivers each — is calibrated to deliver the same reference-level performance from every seat, not just a central sweet spot.

It’s the same principle a Meyer Sound Bluehorn or Amie system is engineered around from the ground up — accuracy that doesn’t collapse the moment you’re not sitting in the one “correct” chair. Every speaker in this Megève room disappears into hand-stretched, wool-lined fabric walls on a custom track system, with the full array acoustically modelled to exceed reference levels throughout. Read the full case study →

Meyer Sound Amie & Bluehorn for High-End HiFi & Music Listening

Meyer Sound’s expertise in studio monitoring translates directly to music reproduction. The Amie Precision Studio Monitor and Bluehorn System, developed for mastering studios and film scoring facilities, deliver uncompromising accuracy for music listening — from classical symphonies to jazz to contemporary pop. Unlike consumer speakers designed to flatter or colour the audio, Meyer monitors reveal the recording exactly as the mastering engineer heard it.

Meyer Amie, developed specifically for Skywalker Sound’s request for “precision translation, exceptional power, and great price point,” is the first new Meyer studio monitor in 25 years — and the first designed explicitly for both film and music applications, with flat frequency and phase response, extremely low distortion and more headroom than any reference monitor in its class. It’s available in scalable configurations: stereo pairs for dedicated listening rooms, LCR systems for larger spaces, and full surround systems for immersive music listening. Meyer Bluehorn for Music represents the absolute pinnacle — installed in film scoring studios where composers like John Williams and Hans Zimmer compose and review orchestral music with studio-reference accuracy, and increasingly specified by audiophiles and professional musicians for dedicated home listening rooms.

Professional studio monitors are designed not to flatter or colour audio, but to reveal it. A Meyer monitor doesn’t make music sound better — it makes it sound true. That honesty is uncomfortable if you’ve been listening to coloured speakers, but it becomes addictive once your ears adjust.

Designing a Meyer Sound System with Custom Controls

Meyer Sound systems require thoughtful specification. Room size, ceiling height, acoustic treatment, viewing distance and screen size all influence which Meyer components work best — this is where partnership with an experienced custom integrator matters. Custom Controls has installed Meyer Sound cinema systems in homes across London, Cheshire, the Alpine region and Dubai, working directly with Meyer Sound’s design validation team to specify systems that meet SMPTE ST202/RP200 cinema audio standards whatever the room size. Our process covers consultation to understand your room and expectations, design recommending the right Meyer components and speaker placement, acoustic planning integrating room treatments with Meyer speakers, integration coordinating with Crestron and Lutron systems, commissioning and calibration working with Meyer Sound specialists, and training so you understand how to get the best performance.

For music listening, a Meyer Amie or Bluehorn system requires different specification again — room acoustics, listening distance, furniture placement and treatment all centred on the sweet spot between the speakers rather than a screen. We design integrated HiFi systems combining Meyer reference speakers with acoustic treatment, source components, whole-home control integration and calibration working with Meyer Sound’s own commissioning team, and we guide clients honestly on whether Amie or Bluehorn best serves their listening habits and expectations — not simply toward the more expensive option.

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