- Cinema and consumer formats in a single video wall
- 14.8.8-channel surround sound with advanced processing
- See and hear it at ISE 2026 in Barcelona
At the Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) show in Barecelona, there’s a spectacular home cinema setup created by the AV equivalent of The Avengers: Ascendo, Barco Residential, StormAudio, PrimeTheater and Technology Integration Partners have teamed up to present the Luxury Immersion Cinema to reveal “what’s possible when immersive video and sound quality is combined with an immersive cinema-level home environment.”
The visuals are handled by Barco Residential’s Runar LED video wall, pictured below. It has a 0.9mm pixel pitch and Native DCI 4K resolution of 4096×2160, and its micro-LED display delivers 100,000:1 contrast, 0.005cd/m² black levels, full DCI-P3 color coverage and 300 nits of brightness at DCI-grade HDR 0 nit to HDR nit.
That, Barco says, enables it to deliver both cinema-quality content and consumer formats in the same home setup.
This is not your standard surround sound setup
Micro-LED walls are brilliant, but they also present some problems with sound: you can’t hide speakers behind the screen, unlike projector screens, so this means that getting accurate spatial placement can be difficult.
In the Luxury Immersion Cinema, the sound is a 14.8.8-channel Ascendo system made specifically for LED video applications. Its speakers are designed to fit around the screen while maintaining front-channel localization and cinematic realism.
The sound system uses Ascendo’s latest speaker, the THE8 Pro Passive LED Wedge. Six of these three-way wedge-shaped speakers handle the front channels, while THE10 Passive Wedge 30, THE10 Passive On Wall and THE10 Passive LED Phantom speakers take care of the side, overhead and rear channels.
Low-end thump comes courtesy of eight (yep, eight) THE28 Sub Pro Squared subwoofers and eight A1A1-10K2 IS infrasonic amplifiers.
It’s the sonic equivalent of a swan: while it may seem calm on the surface, there’s a lot of activity going on that you can’t see thanks to StormAudio’s Elite 32 Analog system. The audio system uses advanced calibration and spatial mapping to deliver coherent audio/video that compensates for the physical distance between the front channels.
According to PrimeTheater’s Helder Martins, whose company designed and constructed the installation, “”This is more than a technology demo. It’s a masterclass in modern home cinema, giving integrators a clear vision of how DCI-grade LED video and immersive audio designed for LED, in concert with a space built for performance, raises expectations of what luxury home theaters can – and should – deliver.”
The Luxury Immersion Cinema is on stand 2J500 at ISE 2026 this week, 3 to 6 February.
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