StormAudio, the French maker of high-performance amplifiers and processors, will exhibit a first-of-its-kind encompass preamp/processor constructed to transmit as much as 32 channels of audio over the web through the AES67 audio over IP (AoIP) protocol. The ISP Evo 32 AoIP processor will make its debut in a state-of-the-art 11.6.6-channel house theater that includes a 16,900-watt energetic speaker setup from Grimani Methods.
Hailed by famous house theater professional Anthony Grimani as “the way forward for audio for theaters, media rooms, and industrial areas,” the Evo pre/professional makes use of Ethernet cable, a community swap, and speaker cable to make totally digital audio connections with the audio system — a easy and environment friendly association stated to get rid of points like ground-loop hum whereas permitting for superior options akin to calibration, monitoring, and distant setup.
Eliminating pointless digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital conversions units the stage for a “sound expertise as shut as potential to what the film makers meant,” stated StormAudio VP Gary Shirt.
On the video facet, a 5K Barco 5K Njord Cinemascope DLP projector geared up with a short-throw lens will probably be paired with a 13.5-foot-wide acoustically clear Seymour-Display screen Excellence Enlightor-Neo 4K HDR display screen that includes adjustable masking and a madVR Envy Excessive video processor. The demonstration may also function RowOne’s Calveri seating, a patent pending low-back, zero-clearance energy incliner.
“Collectively, we’re pushing the boundaries of what’s potential with house theater know-how whereas offering integrators and fanatics with an unforgettable and extra dependable expertise that may be replicated with merchandise every of us are already delivery,” stated Chris Seymour, managing director at Seymour-Display screen Excellence. “There isn’t any vaporware right here and this demo guarantees to be distinctive.”
House Theater Magic on a Grand Scale
Trinnov Audio, one other French firm specializing in reference house theater audio processors theaters, will conduct the primary U.S. demo of a brand new bass-enhancing know-how it calls WaveForming in a customized area designed by Italy’s Officina Acustica. The room will home a stone chilly state-of-the-art 13.1.6 Dolby Atmos setup that includes an array of Ascendo point-source coaxial audio system and a number of powered subwoofers, every boasting an enormous 21-inch driver.
Six years within the making, WaveForming is claimed to get rid of the impact of room modes to ship “unprecedented impression, readability, and element within the bass.” The know-how combines a brand new algorithm and new house theater design pointers to successfully cut back low-frequency issues inherent to small rooms — “the muddy sound produced by lengthy reverberation occasions and the big variation heard amongst a number of seats.”
A trio of demos will probably be carried out to indicate how the know-how works with totally different subwoofer configurations: a 3×2 setup with three subs on the entrance wall and two alongside the again wall, a 12×2 configuration with 12 subwoofers up entrance and two within the again, and a loopy “double bass array” setup comprising of a dozen subwoofers within the entrance of the room and a dozen within the again. A tooth-rattling time is assured for all.
Trinnov’s Altitude32 encompass processor, a 32-channel machine that includes the corporate’s Loudspeaker/Room Optimizer with WaveForming, will sit on the coronary heart of the demo system, aided and abetted by and the extremely configurable 16-channel Amplitude16 energy amplifier, madVR Labs video processing, a Barco Njord CS 5K laser projector able to producing 9,000 lumens, a Kaleidescape Terra film server/Strato-C participant, and an acoustically clear Seymour-Display screen Excellence Enlightor-Neo display screen.
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