Grand Pavois

Lionel on December 10, 2022 at 5:53 am

Small auditoria but one of them was equipped with CDS (Cinema Digital Sound, the first digital sound technology for movies) and played Flatliners, The Doors and Final Approach in that format. All auditoria had the CHF Cabasse speaker system designed by French engineer Georges Cabasse. CHF meant Cinéma en Haute Fidélité (High Fidelity Cinema). The Cabasse product line for cinemas was using bi-amplified screen speakers with Amix amplifiers. Theatres willing to install CHF were subject to an acoustics study to taylor the system on a case-by-case basis. After installation, the equipped auditorium received a quality certificate. Somehow, Cabasse was a French answer to the Lucas' THX program. CHF was installed mostly in France.

Here are pictures of Le Grand Pavois on Film-Tech.

And here is its profile page in French, with comments from previous customers and projectionists, on Salles Cinémas.