FAQ's Expert Guide: Networked Audio and the Future of Home Theater. Featuring Grimani and StormAudio

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Published 2024-04-23

We’ve been building analog systems for decades now that are often plagued with hums and a mess to wire, then rewire, and then rewire again when something needs to be added, updated, or changed. Outside of residential AV, AES67 and various add-ons like Dante are one of the few standards that an entire AV industry has agreed to use. It’s faster to install, has fewer problems, removes connectivity errors, and removes the need for expensive, fragile, and time staking (if you build them) XLR cables, and replaces then with a single Ethernet cable from the processor to the network switch you probably already own.

The coolest thing though is the fact that it eliminates the possibility of ground-loop hums in your system. You know those gremlins that most of us have gotten and frankly destroy the enjoyment of an otherwise tremendous accomplishment! Begone! And take your expensive, time consuming, custom soldered XLR cables with you!

I’ve brought Anthony Grimani from Grimani Systems, and Matthew Trinklein from StormAudio to talk with me about this amazing “new” technology, that has been proven on the commercial side for more than a decade now. I got a chance to play with it at CEDIA Expo this year and have been studying up on it for a while, since I will be putting together the ultimate A-B demo theater so I can compare analog vs. digital amps in some upcoming episodes.

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All Comments (4)

@pkhammu2005 11 days ago

Hey I got the notification for this episode unlike the last 2. Great education
@gregheard6024 9 days ago

Saw this at CEDIA and was very eye opening - Curious how difficult this would be to swap out for an existing analog theater. Good presentation!
@TMDude815 7 days ago

Are there any traditional amps that can take a cat cable in and then usual channel speak cables out. And can or would you name such brands for consideration. Or must we do Antony's route with 4 or five digital amps.