Inside Huawei’s automotive sound engineering lab in Shanghai

When walking at the Shanghai Sound Center in Shanghai, I expected a standard attachment tour. Instead, what I faced is a comprehensive audio engineering process that challenges the applicable arrangement for the audio systems inside the car.

The facility, which has evolved Huawei since the start of dangerous investments in audio research in 2012, includes three distinctive testing environments: the entire other room measures 4.8 x 4 x 4 meters, and a larger semi -technical room that extends at a height of 14x12x5 with a reflective floor, and a dedicated listening room formed in 9.1.6 Lyout. The permitted photography was not due to private technology concerns, but the artistic specifications tell its own story.

The sound challenge inside the car

Goller, whose background includes Gamut Audio, Bang & OlufSen and Harman International, is honored, what Huawei calls “the main control methodology”-a process that begins with objective vocal measurements but depends heavily on the psychological vocal principles of the final sound.

Speaking in the meeting room during the first agenda of the tour, Guller identified the philosophy of development in Huawei: The goal of this is to reproduce recordings honestly as artists intended to hear them, and created what he described as the “Phantom effect” that transports listeners to the original registration environment. This requires the combination of scientific audio measurement with the experience of controlling the technical and the devices designed for this purpose.

He explained that the technical process begins with objective measurements – frequency response curves, phase relationships, timing behavior, and distortion characteristics. These determine the limits of performance. From there, extensive personal listening sessions improve the expression using psychological vocal principles to compensate for the vocal challenges inherent in the cabin: insecurity, short -term repercussions, and loading the bride.

The goal of this is to work within these restrictions while remaining loyal to the source material.

Huawei Sound Ultimate Series

The concrete result of this research is the Huawei Sound Ultimate series, which is the most luxurious technology sound system so far, which has been published in the Maextro S800 Luxury Electric Sedan. The system includes 43 speakers driven by dual loudspeakers that provide a total of 2920 watts.

What Huawei describes “the amazing and thirty -fourth optical surround sound experience” 4D rear stimuli with synchronization with music and video content, adding notes by touch to the auditory experience.

Devices innovations are specific, not general. The cross amplifier rotates in the traditional doors engineering by 90 degrees, reducing the echo of the plate with the extension of the response of the brightness. The dual double -patented amplifier is patented to increase the size of the cabin itself instead of restricting the traditional box design.

Crystal’s publisher rises automatically when entering passengers, with integration with a rhythmic synchronous surrounding lighting with improving the central image accuracy-Huawei claims vocal monotheism by 30 % compared to the previous generation.

The spatial audio application uses 10 upper channels, control in the field of adaptive sound, and what Huawei describes the ASA spatial sound path model for location and clarity. Interestingly, the system integrates with Harmonyos, and extends to the pure sound to what Huawei calls “Sound-To Light”-the surrounding lighting on behalf that responds to the actual time content.

Independent vocal areas

The most technically ambitious feature is an independent sound area technology. Each of the four head baccalaureate merges two drivers – two engine amplifiers and two medium units. In addition to the Huawei sound control algorithms, the main headphone group can act as an active decent, targeting sound spill between the front and rear rows.

Huawei claims up to 30 dB isolation between rows and 99 % energy separation. During the illustration, the front passengers listened to classic music while the background passengers watched an action movie, with the minimum nail talk.

The system also includes NOISE’s cancellation using what Huawei describes as a “multi-dimensional model”-multi-channel amplification with a decrease in cumin that applies to cancellation adaptation to the ear. The multi -layer vocal glass and the absorbed materials provides negative isolation, targeting what the company calls a basic noise ground “at the library level”.

Investment question

Huawei revealed the great spending and development spending: 179.7 billion yuan (about 20 billion pounds / 23.4 billion euros) in 2024, representing 20.8 % of total revenues, with more than 113,000 employees in research and development roles. The company states that approximately 60 billion (about 6.6 billion pounds / 7.8 billion euros) specifically goes to basic science research.

These numbers are the context of the ambitions of sound engineering in Huawei. The company currently provides solutions to more than twenty car manufacturers, and the help of drivers, cockroach systems, audio and control. However, Huawei puts itself as a component supplier – determines individual car manufacturers providing the market and regional launch.

The effects of the market

It usually dominates the audio engineering scene of well -known European brand cars. The systematic approach to Huawei-testing is the test facilities that have been built for this purpose, the experience that has been recruited from old audio companies, and the large capitalist investment-to challenge this specified matter.

The question is not whether Huawei can build great technical demonstrations. The Maextro S800 system works clearly. The question is whether this level of development is translated into broader production volumes, through multiple vehicle platforms, at viable price points.

Goller’s declared goal is to “optimize the registration – to bring us closer to the experience that the artist intended.” It is a standard goal for several Audioville, but it is historically struggling with car sound engineering in order to achieve it in view of the environmental restrictions.

appreciation

After trying both laboratory facilities and a car system, the Huawei program appears to be systematically intrinsically. The combination of the development is by analogy and the refinement of personal settings is a standard of sophisticated sound, and it is adapted to car contexts.

Whether this translates into the success of the market depends on the factors that go beyond the sound performance: the ability to expand production, the completion of the supply chain with various car manufacturers, and at the end, whether consumers appreciate independent audio areas and advanced control enough to pay distinctive prices.

Huawei built the technical basis. The commercial guide will appear as these systems move from the main demonstrations to the wider car assortment.

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