23CH Grimani Systems & Storm Audio Dirac ART Demo Experience!

One of the highlights of CEDIA 2023 was visiting Anthony Grimani's demo room which was meticulously engineered to have the best possible sound in a trade show environment. This 23CH system consisted of Grimani Systems loudspeakers and new 21" Infrasonic subs, Storm Audio Processing with Dirac Art room correction, Row One Seating, Seymour AV screen and Barco Projection all in a 24' x 16' x10' space. The demo was dynamic and punchy and very consistent sounding for the seating area. The bass was goosed up a bit hot to overcome the noise floor of the show but it never sounded boomy or bloated thanks to proper subwoofer placement and equalization. This is a fully active system meaning no passive crossovers and EVERY speaker is DSP tuned and optimized by the man himself. Anthony discusses the process he uses in designing custom theaters to meet his clients needs. He also uses a new digital standard to connect all of the amplification to the Storm processor with a single Cat6 cable!

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[stephenyoud]

Really great to see Anthony again. I watched all his webinars on acoustics and treatments and designed the room in my new house around his presentations. Top Bloke.

[dungysphincter]

I'm so happy for Anthony Grimani's new additions to the audio world! I have no doubt he will do real well in the industry. However, the downside is that a lot of the social shopping we used to do, as well as going to the movies, just don't happen on the scale it used to. Shopping centers around the globe are closing shop do to thievery. Also, with what is going down in Hollywood (Epstein), and P. Diddy (Shan Comes), and all the people behind the entities. I just feel that a lot of social things we used to do will fade away, or change in real dramatic ways. I am in great hopes that Anthony is considering a home line of speakers. Because, I do believe he could be very profitable in this area as well. I just know that if I ever hit the power ball, or inherit a fortune, I am definitely contact Gene, and Anthony! Thanks for sharing Gene! 🙂

[adamjj]

Great stuff. Love to see you paisans together!

[lano]

Hey Gene, Are there any plans to have Anthony on to do a deep dive about infrasonic bass and what steps need to be taken to get the best from those kinds of subs?

[paulupton]

Wonderful interview, enhanced by the mutual arm waving. If I mute the video, it could well be a demo of how to conduct the Halley Orchestra for duo conducters😂

[bigjack]

It would be great if Anthony could come back on and discuss the pros and cons of ART. And how to use Art in conjunction with room treatments

[jman]

27 channels seems too complex to be getting accurate sound reproduction. Why are so many channels needed?

[VividTheater]

Impressive! If I heard correctly, the Strom Audio processor is able to create and assign each speaker its own IP address, as it’s utilizing one cat 6 cable fed through a switch for distribution. If that’s the case, does that mean the processor is able to create as many digital channels as one desires?

[Masterslessons]

Legends in the space. Period. Thanks Gene And Anthony!

[isak]

Tell us more about Dirac ART! I haven't seen a single review of it yet.

[DanielHog]

Fantastic guys, turn-key at its finest. 👍Couldn't make this yrs show unfortunately; haven't missed many!
Hope you cats continue your multi-part YT series which have been GREAT over the years! Would love a mild Dedicate an hour stream on overcoming acoustics in "difficult rooms/spaces", particularly larger greatrooms- which we're finding builders are building fewer lower ceiling living rooms and rather an all downstairs large room! Much appreciated.

[gzubeck]

I get the Cocoon sound idea where you have wonderful pinpoint sound in your private movie theater. I'm just not sure I wanna pay $200, 000+ for one of his systems. I mean Hey if a part goes out five years from now...sorry...we no longer make that as it's been replaced by a newer model. Maybe no backwards compatibility with future repairs and upgrades. Need a house call for small repairs...that'll be $2000 please. The more complex the system the more that can go wrong. So if your into Home theater mostly and have deep pockets go for it. It's a hard sell for the other 95% of us out there. Might be interesting to see various price points of his different installations and testimonials from happy customers.

[robwr]

Wow 23 channels, thats crazy driving all that, how on earth, is that processed in 7 channel dts/dolby x 3 speakers per channel?😊

[chuckmaddison]

Just realised we've not seen Hugo from marketing for a while.

[unknownuser]

I trust Grimani's knowledge in room acoustics but as soon as he starts talking about his speakers he turns into a salesman. I have no experience with his speakers but according to his website they use dome tweeters for the smaller models, CD only for the large ones, also being active is not special neither. So I'm skeptical them being that great as he says since you don't see his speakers used in big projects nor I can see rooms at AVS but you can gather many with Alcons, Wisdom, Ascendo etc. By the way, Alcons and AScendo are highly regarded but no award for them so it seems to me that CEDIA awards are meaningless. Sorry if I sounded rude, didn't mean to :)

[thomasferguson]

What demo song was it again? Derrick Trucks??