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

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Publicado 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.

Be sure to watch, and please remember to like and subscribe so I can keep bringing you the latest technology directly from the mouths of the award-winning engineers that helped design them. This isn’t some “opinion channel”, I’m taking my 25-years in the industry working on some of the coolest products and projects out there, and calling up my industry buddies so we can talk about what new products and categories you need to be watching out for.

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Todos los comentarios (5)

@pkhammu2005 hace 1 mes

Hey I got the notification for this episode unlike the last 2. Great education
@gregheard6024 hace 1 mes

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 hace 21 días

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.
@Saturn2888 hace 13 días

Are we using PoE here or transferring audio signals over Ethernet cables? Does this require all speakers to be powered? Complex crossovers? How would this look to someone today who's using speaker wire and XLR cables to connect his pre-pro to his amp? This video went straight into talking about what's coming, but not what it does, so I was left (and still am) completely confused 20 minutes into the video. Even with Anthony's picture of "this to this", I'm still thinking to myself "my system doesn't look like that. I don't know what's changing". It seems like Anthony's systems all have a bunch of external amps that run speaker wire to speakers. But how does this remove ground hum? My only thought is that we use parallel port connections from Storm and Trinnov pre-pros into amps, and that those connections are called AES. So maybe that's what's being converted to AES67 or Dante. I spent time looking these up online and couldn't figure out what they were relative to home theater. Maybe by the 1 hour mark, I'll have all these answers, but I wanted to give feedback on how I'm feeling 20 minutes in as someone who considers himself "in the know" on home theater.