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  • Page 1 IAP 8 Owner’s Manual Illusonic...
  • Page 3 Illusonic IAP 8 Owner’s Manual...
  • Page 4 Illusonic IAP 8 Version 1.0.0 Published by Illusonic GmbH Illusonic GmbH, registered offices: Bahnstrasse 23, 8610 Uster, Switzerland www.illusonic.com Illusonic is a registered trademark of Illusonic GmbH Copyright c Illusonic GmbH, 2011–2015 All rights reserved Printed in Switzerland...

  • Page 5: Important Information

    Illusonic IAP 8 Important Information FCC Notice This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.

  • Page 6: Safety Notice

    Illusonic IAP 8 Safety Notice Make sure to respect the following rules: – Install the Processor on a stable base. – Do not install the Processor near water. – Do not expose the Processor to any kind of liquid. – Do not install the Processor near any heat source or in direct sun light.

  • Page 7: Table Of Contents

    Illusonic IAP 8 Contents Important Information FCC Notice ..........
  • Page 8 Illusonic IAP 8 Menu: Bass Management Introduction .........

  • Page 9: Introduction

    DAC, an analog pre-amplifier, a phono stage, an equalizer, and a processor. Illusonic Audio Processors integrate these functionalities - because they be- long together from a quality, technical, and usage perspective. The number of signal transmissions and conversions (AD, DA, digital clock sync) are minimized.

  • Page 10: How To Use This Manual

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 1 Introduction How To Use This Manual – The manual is structured to be read through from beginning to end. – In case you read the manual only punctually, there are many pointers within the text, referring to related information and chapters. Detailed contents in the beginning and an index in the end help you find desired...

  • Page 11: Iap 8 Overview

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 1 Introduction IAP 8 Overview Inputs IAP 8 can connect to a variety of sources. There is usually no need for a device between the source and IAP 8. In addition to conventional analog and digital inputs, IAP 8 features a phono stage, USB audio, network media rendering, and four HDMI inputs with multi-channel support.

  • Page 12: Volume Control

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 1 Introduction 4+4H 5+2H Volume Control In order to be able to connect directly to power amplifiers or active loud- speakers, IAP 8 features volume control, implemented digitally. Volume con- trol is applied just before the DACs using 32 bit floating point arithmetic, followed by a dithering process.
  • Page 13 Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 1 Introduction determine how a room reacts to the sound. Depth/Immersion adds free- dom to modify the perceived spaciousness beyond these traditional physical parameters. Tone Control While room equalization has the goal to mitigate dominant characteristics of your room, tone control is used to subjectively adjust the level of low and high frequencies.
  • Page 14 Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 1 Introduction Surround Loudspeakers When IAP 8 receives surround channels via HDMI, it will reproduce them over the surround loudspeakers. For stereo audio, IAP 8 can generate sur- round channels, which are used to render room information in the recording more naturally.

  • Page 15: Bass Management

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 1 Introduction Crossovers IAP 8 implements up to 4-way active crossovers. Gain, delay, polarity, and equalizers can be applied to each channel to implement and optimize cross- over filters. Bass Management IAP 8’s versatile bass management enables optimal use of different loud- speaker sizes and/or subwoofers.
  • Page 16 Softwares The latest versions of IAP Controller and IAP Calibration softwares can be downloaded from the Illusonic web site. Both, Windows and OS X versions are available. IAP Controller presents all IAP 8 parameters for comfortable setup. IAP Calibration makes multi-point room measurement easy and helps setting up calibration related parameters (channel gain/delay/polarity, equal- izers, crossovers, bass management).

  • Page 17: Getting Started

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 2 Getting Started Getting Started Step 1: Unpacking Unpack IAP 8. Store the packaging for future transportation. The package contains: – IAP 8 unit – AC power cable – Remote control – This user manual Step 2: Installing the AC Power Cable 1.

  • Page 18: Step 3: Choosing A Loudspeaker Setup

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 2 Getting Started Step 3: Choosing a Loudspeaker Setup You need to decide which loudspeaker setup you use and connect the amplifiers/loudspeakers to IAP 8. Follow Chapter 8 to: – Learn about the supported loudspeaker setups.

  • Page 19: Step 4: Connecting Audio/Video Devices

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 2 Getting Started Step 4: Connecting Audio/Video Devices Connect audio and video devices to any of the above shown connectors: 1. HDMI sources, such as Blu-ray players, game consoles, and set top boxes. 2. Digital audio sources, such as CD players.

  • Page 20: Step 5: Using Iap

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 2 Getting Started Step 5: Using IAP 8 1. Push the rotary to switch IAP 8 on. 2. Select an input source, using the < > buttons below the display. 3. Adjust the volume by turning the rotary control on the right.

  • Page 21: Advanced Setup

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 2 Getting Started Advanced Setup For reaching excellence of sound, it is often necessary to consider room acoustics and to adapt IAP 8 to the room and loudspeakers: – If necessary, acoustically treat your room. – If you use subwoofers, configure bass management (Chapter 7).
  • Page 22 Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 2 Getting Started...

  • Page 23: Usage

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 3 Usage Usage Front Panel and Remote Control Display Rotary (Turn) Select (Rotary Push) < Menu > IR Receiver Standby LED IAP 8’s front panel has a display, showing the current state of the device, and a number controls:...

  • Page 24: Back Panel

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 3 Usage Back Panel Power and Control Connectors 1. AC Power Before connecting a power cable here, make sure that the indicated voltage corresponds to your AC power voltage. Make sure to use 3 terminals (phase, neutral, and earth) power cables with ground conductor.

  • Page 25: Input Connectors

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 3 Usage Input Connectors 1. HDMI 1–4 These are four HDMI connectors for audio/video sources, such as Blu-ray players, game consoles, and set top boxes. Up to 8-channel/192 kHz/24 bit audio over HDMI is supported. Most Blu-ray players decode Dolby Digital, Dolby True HD, DTS, and DTS HD and deliver the decoded 2.

  • Page 26: Output Connectors

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 3 Usage Output Connectors 1. HDMI Out Typically, a TV or projector is connected to the HDMI output. The video signal is passed through from the selected HDMI input, while the audio By default, no video signal is given to the HDMI is removed.

  • Page 27: Common Usage

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 3 Usage Common Usage In normal operation mode, the display shows the currently active Sound If you are not in normal operation mode, push Menu for two seconds to return to normal operation mode. Settings (Preset), input source, and volume level. For example:...

  • Page 28: Sound Settings (Presets)

    PRESET 4 PASSTHROUGH ILLUSONIC PROCESSING Illusonic Processing ILLUSONIC PROCESSING Choose Illusonic Processing On to apply Illusonic signal processing. Note < > ON/OFF that parameters which do not apply will not show (e.g. if there is no center IMMERSIVE AUDIO channel, Center will not be shown, etc.).
  • Page 29 Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 3 Usage Immersion determines how much listeners are immersed into sound (in psy- choacoustic terminology “enveloped”). Physically, this setting relates to how strong diffuse sound in the recording is reproduced. Brilliance By its default value, “Brilliance Off”, Immersion is created by concert hall type diffuse sound, extracted from the input signal.

  • Page 30: Menu Mode

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 3 Usage Other Settings OTHER SETTINGS NAME A number of other settings are available for each preset. MUSIC IMMERSIVE AUDIO GAIN/DEL TRIM Name You can customize each preset’s name. Rotary (Push) toggles between IMMERSIVE AUDIO EQUALIZER the letters and Rotary (Turn) selects a specific letter or blank.
  • Page 31 Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 3 Usage The figure on the left illustrates the menus of IAP 8: PRESET 1 HDMI 1 – Menu: Lock Settings -40.0 dB In this menu you can lock all settings of your IAP to prevent that settings Menu are changed accidentally.

  • Page 32: Cleaning

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 3 Usage Cleaning Use a dry towel of cloth for cleaning. Never use any solvent or liquids, as they may damage the surface treatment or may penetrate into the IAP 8. Maintenance and Service IAP 8 contains no user serviceable parts. Do not try to open, repair, or modify the Processor by yourself.

  • Page 33: Menu: Inputs

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 4 Menu: Inputs Menu: Inputs MENU INPUTS MENU SHOW / HIDE INPUTS MENU NAME INPUTS MENU INPUT INPUTS MENU HDMI OUTPUT INPUTS MENU DELAY INPUTS MENU GAIN INPUTS MENU PRESET INPUTS MENU USB AUDIO CLASS INPUTS...
  • Page 34 Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 4 Menu: Inputs By default, “Off”, on non-HDMI inputs no video is HDMI OUTPUT given to the HDMI output. Alternatively, for each non-HDMI input, you can choose which HDMI input shall be given to the HDMI output.

  • Page 35: Menu: Outputs

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 5 Menu: Outputs Menu: Outputs Note that Loudspeaker Setup (Chapter 8), Bass Management (Chapter 7), and Equalizer (Chapter 6) are other menus which relate to IAP 8’s outputs. MENU OUTPUTS MENU GAIN TRIM PRESET MENU DELAY TRIM...
  • Page 36 Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 5 Menu: Outputs Optionally, you can choose to apply a subsonic high- SUBSONIC FILTER pass filter, to reduce strain by subsonic frequencies on large loudspeakers and subwoofers. By default, a limiter is active on each output channel LIMITER (“All”), to make sure hard clipping does not occur.

  • Page 37: Menu: Equalizer

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 6 Menu: Equalizer Menu: Equalizer In addition to fine-tuning your system with equalizers, as described in this chapter, use gain and delay trim (Chapter 5) to calibrate the level and gain for each Introduction loudspeaker). When measuring your sound system, you can...
  • Page 38 Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 6 Menu: Equalizer Select in this sub-menu the loudspeaker channel SELECT (FL, FR, ...) and one of the ten available equalizers. EQ 1 BELL 100 Hz Sub-menus Type, Parameters, and Copy EQ To ap- ply to the channel and equalizer selected here.

  • Page 39: Equalizer Types And Parameters

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 6 Menu: Equalizer Equalizer Types and Parameters A variety of filters can be used to modify the frequency response of each loudspeaker signal in a flexible way to achieve a desired equalization. All filters are implemented as minimum phase filters to minimize delay and tem- poral artifacts.
  • Page 40 Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 6 Menu: Equalizer – High Pass The high-pass filter maintains high-frequencies and attenuates 0 dB frequencies below the cutoff frequency f with 12 dB per octave. 3 dB – Low Shelving The low shelving filter applies a gain to amplify/attenuate low frequencies...

  • Page 41: Menu: Bass Management

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 7 Menu: Bass Management Menu: Bass Management In addition to setting up bass management, as described in this chapter, you can use gain/delay trim (Chapter 5) and equalizers (Chapter 6) to Introduction calibrate and fine-tune your system.

  • Page 42: Bass Management Use Cases

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 7 Menu: Bass Management Bass Management Use Cases Using Full-Range Loudspeakers A straight forward loudspeaker setup uses for each main loudspeaker a large loudspeaker. Optionally, a subwoofer is used to play the low frequency effects (LFE) channel (the “.1” of 5.1 and 7.1 content).
  • Page 43 Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 7 Menu: Bass Management Using a Mix of Full-Range and Small Loudspeakers For each main loudspeaker, you can select whether it is a large or small loudspeaker. If a subwoofer is used, then the low frequencies of all small...

  • Page 44: Bass Management Menu

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 7 Menu: Bass Management Bass Management Menu MENU BASS MGMT MENU LOUDSPEAKERS BASS MANAGEMENT MENU CROSS OVER 1 BASS MANAGEMENT MENU CROSS OVER 2 BASS MANAGEMENT BASS GAIN TRIM In addition to the choice of large/small for each loudspeaker, the bass man- agement crossover filter parameters have to be set to match the used loud-...

  • Page 45: Menu: Speaker Setup

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 8 Menu: Speaker Setup Menu: Speaker Setup It is crucially important that you tell IAP 8, as explained in this chapter, what the loudspeaker setup connected to it is. MENU SPEAKER SETUP 5 + 2H SUB ON The figure above illustrates the Speaker Setup menu, displaying on the bot-...
  • Page 46 Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 8 Menu: Speaker Setup The figure below illustrates the different main loudspeaker setups: 2+2H 3+2H 4+2H 4+4H 5+2H On the following pages, each loudspeaker setup is discussed.

  • Page 47: Stereo)

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 8 Menu: Speaker Setup 2 (Stereo) This is a conventional stereo setup with two loudspeakers. 2+2H (Stereo+Height) This setup adds two height loudspeakers to stereo. Adding loudspeakers above the left and right loudspeakers adds to the perception of depth and immersion .

  • Page 48: Stereo+Center+Height)

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 8 Menu: Speaker Setup 3+2H (Stereo+Center+Height) This is a stereo setup with additional center and height loudspeakers. A cen- ter loudspeaker may be used to: – Reproduce the center channel of multi-channel recordings and movies. – Reproduce the phantom center of stereo recordings .

  • Page 49: Surround+Front Height)

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 8 Menu: Speaker Setup 4+2H (Surround+Front Height) This setup adds two surround and two height loudspeakers to stereo. Sur- round channels may be used to: – Reproduce the surround channels of multi-channel recordings and movies. – For stereo audio, IAP 8 can generate surround channels , immersing lis- teners.

  • Page 50: Cinema 5.1 Surround)

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 8 Menu: Speaker Setup 5 (Cinema 5.1 Surround) This setup adds a center and two surround loudspeakers to stereo. A center loudspeaker may be used to: – Reproduce the center channel of multi-channel recordings and movies.

  • Page 51: Cinema 7.1 Without Center)

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 8 Menu: Speaker Setup 6 (Cinema 7.1 without Center) Setup 6 provides a full cinema 7.1 experience, but without a center channel. The 4 surround channels may be used to: – Reproduce the surround channels of multi-channel recordings and movies.
  • Page 52 Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 8 Menu: Speaker Setup...

  • Page 53: Menu: System

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 9 Menu: System Menu: System MENU SYSTEM MENU DISPLAY SYSTEM MENU REMOTE PAIRING SYSTEM MENU MEASUREMENT SYSTEM MENU FIRMWARE VERSION SYSTEM MENU NETWORK SYSTEM MENU STANDBY LED SYSTEM FACTORY DEFAULT The System menu features various general settings. The figure above illus- trates the System menu and selection of its sub-menus.
  • Page 54 Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 9 Menu: System Here you can select a loudspeaker channel which MEASUREMENT will be used to reproduce the left channel of the se- lected input source. Typically, this menu is used for: Gain/delay trim, equalizers, and bass management are applied depending on whether they are switched –...

  • Page 55: Software Tools

    Software Tools Software Tools On our web-site www.illusonic.com you can download IAP Utilities for Win- dows and OS X. Follow the instructions, included with IAP Utilities, to install and operate the software. A USB cable is required to connect IAP 8 to your PC/Mac.

  • Page 56: Iap Calibration

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 10 Software Tools 10.2 IAP Calibration With IAP Calibration you can measure your system and set gain/delay trim automatically. Visualizations of your room’s response for each loudspeaker help greatly to set IAP 8’s equalizers to correct issues of your room and setup.
  • Page 57 Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 10 Software Tools In order to measure your IAP based sound system you need this equipment: – Personal computer (Windows 7 or later, OS X 10.6 or later). – Sound card with a phantom powered microphone input and analog output (e.g.
  • Page 58 Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 10 Software Tools...

  • Page 59: Specifications

    Illusonic IAP 8 Chapter 11 Specifications Specifications 11.1 Technical General User control rotary control with push function, three buttons Remote control compatible with “Apple Remote” infrared remote control, support for pairing, codes for automation systems Display graphical VFD display with 160 32 resolution...
  • Page 60 Lt/Rt, 5.1, 7.1, 50 HDMI 8-channel LPCM formats Output formats 11 main loudspeaker configurations, up to 4 subwoofers, active crossovers, 2 to 8 channels Illusonic Processing center, depth, immersion, brilliance, environment, matrix on/off Tone Control bass and treble with gain and frequency parameters...

  • Page 61: Index

    13, 39 DTS, 23 high shelving equalizer, 38 bass gain trim, 42 DTS HD Master Audio, 23 crossover, 42 IAP Utilities, 53 large, 42 Illusonic Processing, 26 equalization small, 42 Brilliance, 27 loudspeakers, 35 use cases, 40 Center, 26 room, 35...
  • Page 62 24 softwares, 14, 53 outputs, 9 Sound Settings, 25, 26 RCA out, 24 LFE gain, 33 signals, 24 Illusonic Processing, 26 small, 42 sub overhead, 33 other settings, 28 Overview, 9 subwoofer, 39 tone control, 27 XLR out, 24 specifications, 57...

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