StormAudio And M&K Sound At ISE ISE 2019

StormAudio Exhibited Full Hardware Range, And Hosted Home Theater Demos With Alcons Audio And M&K Sound At ISE 2019

February 16, 2019

Stronger than ever with its new management team and leading-edge products, StormAudio showed ISE 2019 attendees just how brilliant immersive sound can be. From is active exhibit, which it shares with M&K Sound, StormAudio presented its entire range of luxury immersive audio preamp/processors and amplifiers. On-hand was CEO Olivier Thumerel, Product Manager Sebastien Gailleton, U.S. Sales Manager Gary Blouse, Sales and Marketing administrator Julia Olivier and DSP Developer Thierry Heeb.

Two Home Theater Demonstrations

Throughout the ISE event StormAudio  conductied two separate home theatre demos. The first was with Alcons Audio, where the two companies replicated the active 9.1.6 set-up that won AVS Forum’s 2018 CEDIA Expo Best of Show award. This featured StormAudio’s 32- channel Digital AES Edition processor and an Alcons pro-ribbon loudspeaker system. The second demo was with M&K Sound, which took place nearby the exhibit hall in historic Amsterdam. This was a 9.1.4 setup featuring StormAudio’s 20-channel processor.

Dirac Live Calibration Tool 2.0: More Intuitive Process, Increased Functionality

All the StormAudio processors incorporate Dirac Live® Room Calibration. Now, with StormAudio firmware update 3.4r2, the processors support the new Dirac Live Calibration Tool in its 2.x versions (DLCT 2.0). This complete overhaul of the Dirac user-interface makes the calibration process easier and more intuitive and can be managed from laptop, with support added for Swedish, Spanish, French, Mandarin and Japanese languages. Additional enhancements include a phase correction algorithm for improved stereo reproduction with per speaker pair analysis.

Product Range Overview

Serving the upper-end of the home cinema category, the StormAudio range consists of 16, 20 and 32- channel digital and analog immersive audio preamplifier processors; 8 and 16-channel power amplifiers, and a 16-channel integrated immersive processor/amplifier (AVR). The processors all feature built-in compatibility with Dolby Atmos®, DTS:X™ and Auro-3D® and integrate category-leading solutions including Dirac Live® Room Calibration and StormMonitoring™ remote web-based monitoring tool.