UPLINK has embarked on a quest to offer cinema goers the best indie and foreign films in a country where Japanese blockbusters are becoming increasingly popular at the expense of both Hollywood movies and foreign arthouse titles.

Over the last decade, the number of mini theatres has declined as multiplexes have flourished, but UPLINK and its president, Takashi Asai, have remained true to their belief that the future is bright for arthouse mini theatres in Tokyo. The way to ensure this, in their opinion, is to offer a pristine audiovisual experience to their customers.

As a result, UPLINK has chosen Powersoft amplifier platforms to drive the bespoke audio systems in its venues in the Kichijo-ji area, one of the city’s most fashionable districts. The audio setup in each of the venue’s five screens is driven by Powersoft Ottocanali amplifier platforms, which power Taguchi Acoustic Lab speaker systems.

Prior to the deployment, and in order to get familiar with the world of power amplification, Asai decided to educate himself in order to make the best possible choice for his cinemas and their customers.

Asai began conversations with an old friend – Kazunori Taguchi, director of Taguchi Acoustic Lab – to understand how to take UPLINK’s audio systems to the next level.

It didn’t take long for Asai to decide that the flat-panel Taguchi speakers were the ideal fit for the UPLINK cinemas, so he was then able to begin shooting out the amplifiers that would be used to power them.

Hirata was also full of praise for the efficiency of the Ottocanali’s GPI/O function in reference to the cinema’s emergency cut relay system, as well as the precision made available by Powersoft’s ArmoníaPlus software, which was used to tune the system for each screen during the installation.