Storm Audio ISP - Theater and Speaker Configuration; Defining Theater Channels and Speaker Layouts

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Building a Theater - Defining Channels
To assign analog outputs to particular channels,
you must build a theater. A theater may occupy as
few as 2 channels or as many as 16 or 32 depending
on the Optional module assembled. There are over
90 options for theaters. Any channels le over may
be assigned to secondary multi-channel theaters, 2
channel A/V zones, audio only zones, mono zones
or headphone zones. A physical output can only be
assigned to one theater or zone.
To assign channel outputs, you must rst build
a Theater or Zone. Theaters are multi-channel
systems. Zones are either 1 or 2 channel audio or
audio/video zones. Any theaters or zones created
appear to the right and are listed by their names
which you assign. By default, the ISP ships with a
2 channel theater congured. To build your own,
delete this theater and create a new one.
Click EDIT, then DELETE. Click OK to conrm. You
will be returned to the Main Speakers page.
1. Create Theater
Click Create Theater to build your new theater.
Theater 1 will appear to the right of the Create
Theater button. Click Congure to proceed.
2. Select Speaker Layout
All possible loudspeaker layouts based on
available channel count are listed. A shorter
list “Recommended by StormAudio” is listed
by default and contains most commonly used
options. Click All to see all possible options.
Denitions are titled by channel count in the
following order, “Base Layer . LFE . Height
Layer . Top Layer”. For example, 9.1.0.6
would feature 9 ear level speakers, 1 sub
channel, 0 height speakers (common only
for Auro3D layouts), and 6 ceiling speakers.
For each denition, you can use the matrix to see
how compatible that layout is with each of the
3 codecs and which possible speaker locations
are occupied. To reduce ambiguity, you can also
click VIEW to see the layout visualized in a room.
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