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- Page 1 OWNER’S MANUAL ISP CORE 16 Immersive Sound Preamp/Processor VERSION 1.0 firmware 4.2r0 and onward...
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Page 2: Important Safety Instructions
Important Safety Instructions The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol within an equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated “dangerous voltage“ within the product’s enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock to persons. -
Page 3: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents Profiles ..................15 Important Safety Instructions ........2 StormAudio Limited Warranty ........2 Individual Channel Adjustments ........ 16 Technical Support ..............2 Test Tone Generator ............17 Front panel ................4 Multi-way Loudspeaker Setup ........18 Rear panel ................4 Channel EQ ................ -
Page 4: Front Panel
Front panel Rear panel 1. Power Button 8. Power Inlet / Fuse Socket / Mains Use this button to toggle the ISP between Switch ON and STANDBY. Note that the rear panel Mains power is applied to the ISP here. Ensure switch must be ON for the unit to operate. - Page 5 ISP Immersive Sound Processor 14. Analog Inputs 17. Zone2 Optical Output Eight RCA inputs and one XLR balanced input An optical Toslink outputs is provided as are provided and can be used as following a dedicated 2 channel downmix output depending on the “Input Settings”...
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Page 6: General
General Installation Welcome Prepare your installation site by following the steps below: consult page “Rear panel” on page 4 Thank you for your purchase of a StormAudio for rear panel diagram indicating location of key ISP Immersive Sound Preamp Processor. The ISP connections. -
Page 7: Connect Source Components
ISP Immersive Sound Processor Connect Source Components Once in sleep mode, press the front panel POWER button. The ISP will begin the startup sequence. Legacy digital sources can be connected to the During the Initialization process (about 30s) the digital inputs 1-6. Stereo or surround analog LED will blink green until the unit is ready with sources can be connected to the Analog Inputs a steady green LED. -
Page 8: Default Passwords
4. Open your Web Browser in a laptop and enter the IP address in the URL area. Then select Expert setup and use installer as password. Note: Only one instance of control via web UI can be opened at a time. If a window is already accessing the ISP web UI, a message will ask you to close one. -
Page 9: Web Ui Header Diagram
ISP Immersive Sound Processor Web UI Header Diagram • Remote Control: A copy of the page available to 1. Persistent Remote Control Bar anyone logging into the web UI regardless of their This area provides access to change some credentials level. The only difference between this page and the one available without logging in is settings without having to access the remote that the Persistent Remote Control Bar remains at... -
Page 10: System Settings
Load License: Use this function to load the Those settings are defined in the Access optional license file. This will activate the feature Management area at the bottom of this page. in your ISP CORE 16. Check your reseller for the The default passwords are: possible options. - Page 11 ISP Immersive Sound Processor Installer: installer Expert User: expert If you are a dealer or custom installer, you are advised to change these passwords and document them. Similarly, if you are a client and wish to lock other users out of settings, you may wish to change default passwords as well.
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Page 12: Input Settings
3. Video In Input Settings For any given input, you can map separate The ISP permits the installer to create access to video and audio inputs except that when the sources in a very intuitive way for the end user. audio input is an HDMI input, the video input The installer is advised to title inputs thoughtfully must be the same HDMI input. -
Page 13: Roon Ready
ISP Immersive Sound Processor 6. Preferred Upmix on all remotes and discoverable by the Roon core. On a per input level, you may choose to engage a particular upmixer, or leave the 2. Roon core settings option set to none. This setting overrides any In your Roon core, whether embedded in preferred upmix defined as part of a preset. -
Page 14: Building A Theater - Defining Channels
A theater may occupy as few as 2 channels or as many as 16 with the ISP CORE 16. There are close to 400 possible combinations of speakers for theaters. Any channels left over may be assigned to secondary... -
Page 15: Zones
ISP Immersive Sound Processor 2 input used by all the audio zones (Secondary firing in ceilings speakers. source). You can choose the Zone to play either E. For each speaker, you can define whether the Zone2 source or follow the Main Theater replication is required. -
Page 16: Individual Channel Adjustments
13 14 15 6. Delay units Individual Channel Adjustments Choose whether to measure channel delays Once your theater is defined, each channel can in meters (default), feet, or milliseconds. be individually adjusted. Child theater can also be created, see page 7. -
Page 17: Test Tone Generator
ISP Immersive Sound Processor function, you are encouraged to upgrade • Pink Noise 400Hz-4kHz: Generates pink noise band limited to one decade. This is particularly loudspeakers and/or amplification. useful when setting relative levels between channels with dramatically different useful 10. Tilt EQ bandwidths. -
Page 18: Multi-Way Loudspeaker Setup
Multi-way Loudspeaker Setup • Slope: For each filter, select a slope. Options are During the initial Theater Definition setup, you Butterworth (6dB / oct, 12dB / oct, 18dB / oct, 24dB / oct and 48dB / oct), Linkwitz Riley (12dB / oct, have the option of defining any speaker as 24dB / oct, 36dB / oct and 48dB / oct). -
Page 19: Channel Eq
ISP Immersive Sound Processor Channel EQ For LPF and HPF choose a type and slope Each channel can have up to 20 filters cells for amongst Butterworth (6dB / oct, 12dB / oct, equalization, including additional crossover 18dB / oct, 24dB / oct and 48dB / oct), Linkwitz capabilities. -
Page 20: Room Eq Wizard Integration
9. Frequency Room EQ Wizard integration Each filter requires that a center or cutoff frequency be specified. You can enter this number directly in the text box or increment/ decrement by the amount chosen in the header row using the +/- buttons to the right. 1. -
Page 21: Bass Management
ISP Immersive Sound Processor Bass Management While it can help achieve greater subwoofer integration and low frequencies reproduction, it Bass Management is one of the most important should only be used by calibrators with sufficient and critical part to adjust in the ISP in order to skill otherwise comparably poor results may be achieve the best bass response of your system inevitable. - Page 22 Large and Sub: Channel is not band limited, but with 12dB to 48dB / octave slope (8 order). • a copy of the bass for this channel is routed to 5. With LFE the bass SUB channel as well. Set the frequency below which bass should be sent to the bass SUB When a channel is set to Large, Large and Sub channel and the slope at which the crossover...
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Page 23: Output Mapping
ISP Immersive Sound Processor Output Mapping mixed into this channel. When a Bass Zone is set, define the mixing level to apply between 0dB and -20dB. This level should be adjusted Should you wish to map a physical analog output considering the overall acoustical response channel to a loudspeaker other than the default of the system. -
Page 24: Child Theater / Sub Theater
Child Theater / Sub Theater 3. Keep Dirac Profile If you have created a Dirac profile for the You may optionally create alternate speaker parent theater, you have the option to retain definitions in your theater with some restrictions. that calibration for the child theater. Note For example, if you wish to have music playing that it might be recommended to run a new before the movie plays before everyone is... -
Page 25: Dirac Live
3. Prepare Calibration Hardware purchased by the installer through their dealer. StormAudio recommends using the UMIK- Stormaudio ISP CORE 16 comes by default with 1 USB microphone that is part of the the activation of Dirac Live® and optionally with Microphone Mini Kit available in StormAudio’s... - Page 26 9. Configure Microphone is recommended that if your theater includes multiple subwoofers, you manually correct Choose the Recording Device UMIK-1 (A). levels, EQ, and delay for each and then group Load the microphone calibration file (B) all of them together for the purposes of downloaded in step “3.
- Page 27 ISP Immersive Sound Processor 12. Measure Acoustic Response of step 6. Click Proceed to Select Arrangement (E). Remaining Positions Once the first measurement is taken, 11. Measure Acoustic Response of Sweet that position will be checked indicating Spot successful capture. Move the microphone Place the microphone in the exact sweet spot to the next position of the diagram that you of the room at ear level to begin.
- Page 28 14. Crossover setting described below: Several magnitude response plots will be • The input target curve shows the coloration for shown in the graph. These plots present the complex summation of the sub-woofer(s) and the average magnitude response of the high-range speaker from the lower sub-woofer(s) selected speaker(s) and sub-woofer(s).
- Page 29 ISP Immersive Sound Processor Select the “empty” slot 1 (A), give a name and • Do not attempt to boost bass of a loudspeaker below its low frequency limit as this will only lead a description to your new Dirac profile (B). to high distortion and likely damage Save your project for future use (C) before •...
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Page 30: Settings
Settings triggers may be daisy chained so that only once The ISP includes a variety of system wise settings the preceding amplifier is fully powered does the that are set in this menu that govern behavior following amplifier initiate it’s power up sequence of the unit. -
Page 31: Audio/Video General Delay Per Av Zone
ISP Immersive Sound Processor Audio/Video General Delay per AV Zone Group Command name System Command Set the global lip sync delay for each theater, A/V, POWER POWER ON and Headphone zone here. Max value is 250 ms. POWER OFF CONTROL DISPLAY System Setup INFO... -
Page 32: Front Panel
When using IR to control the ISP, we recommend activating the “Fast boot mode” defined in previous page to ensure there is no loss of IR commands while the ISP powers up, especially when using Logitech Harmony and the IR sequences it may generate. -
Page 33: Presets
ISP Immersive Sound Processor Presets 6. Audio Zone You may choose to route audio to 0 or more Presets provide the installer with a way to group zones as well. When zones are checked, they specific settings together into a scene which can are accessible and controllable from the be easily recalled by the end user from a remote remote control when this preset is selected. -
Page 34: Monitoring
Monitoring 6. HDMI/DOWNMIX Visualize audio output on the HDMI outputs Accessing the Monitoring page powered and XLR downmix outputs. by StormMonitoring, you will get detailed information about the operation of the ISP. 7. Logging Logging is a useful feature to help identify 1. -
Page 35: Web Ui Remote Control
ISP Immersive Sound Processor Web UI Remote Control • LFE Dim: In some cases, movies encoded with Dolby may have bass that appears to be too Using the recommended web browser on your loud. Use LFE Dim to attenuate the LFE channel laptop, one can access the remote control. -
Page 36: Independent Remote Control
6. Triggers Theater input. For each Zone it is possible to then select either the Secondary Zone2 Any triggers configured for Manual Switching source or the source currently playing in the (see “Triggers” on page 30) will have a button available here. -
Page 37: Disposal Of Used Batteries
ISP Immersive Sound Processor Disposal Of Used Batteries StormRemote App Apple iPad and Android users can download the StormRemote app from the Stores and control their ISP as in the web UI remote control. These symbols shown on the product, the Tablet Phones packaging or in the manual or separate... -
Page 38: Wiring Recommendations
Wiring Recommendations 1. XLR pin out To connect the ISP to an amplier, you must use male to female XLR cables. The connector in the ISP is a Male XLR. We recommend up to 3m cables. 2. XLR to RCA unbalancing cable In some cases, it might be required to connect to ampliers with unbalanced inputs. -
Page 39: Installation Notes
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Page 40: Specifications
Specifications Audio Control Audio Formats 16ch (9.1.6/11.1.4), 192 kHz Control Modules Available Crestron & Crestron Home Dolby Atmos, DTS:X Pro, Control4 IMAX Enhanced, Auro-3D All Legacy codecs Savant StormXT* ELAN Audio Inputs 4x RCA analog (7.1 or 2.0) Front panel sensor 3x Coaxial SPDIF Rear panel I/O, jack 3.5mm 3x Optical Toslink... -
Page 41: Acknowledgements
ISP Immersive Sound Processor Acknowledgements DTS® is a registered trademark of DTS, Inc. Dolby® is a registered trademark of Dolby Laboratories. Auro-3D® is a registered trademark of Auro Technologies. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners. Manufactured under license from Dolby Laboratories. Dolby, Dolby Atmos, Dolby Audio and the double-D symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories. - Page 42 StormAudio | Immersive Audio Technologies 8 rue de la Rabotière| 44800 Saint-Herblain | France Version 4.0 ISP_MK2_OM_MANUAL-4 28-09-2021...
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