- Cinema and consumer quality 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 Barcelona, there’s a spectacular home theater setup created by the audio-visual equivalent of The Avengers: Ascendo, Barco Residential, StormAudio, PrimeTheater and Technology Integration Partners have come together to present Luxury Immersion Cinema and reveal “what’s possible when you combine cinema-grade video standards and uncompromisingly immersive audio in a luxury home environment.”
The images are provided by Barco Residential’s Runar LED video wall, shown below. It has a 0.9mm pixel size and a native DCI 4K resolution of 4096×2160, and its micro-LED display offers 100,000:1 contrast, 0.005 cd/m² black levels, full DCI-P3 color coverage, and 300 nits of brightness in DCI-grade HDR, rising to 500 nits for consumer HDR.
This, says Barco, allows it to offer cinema-quality content and consumer formats in the same residential configuration.
This is not your standard surround sound setup
Micro-LED walls are bright, but they also present some problems for audio: you can’t hide the speakers behind the screen, unlike projection screens, which means achieving precise spatial positioning can be tricky.
In the Luxury Immersion Cinema, audio is a 14,8,8 channel Ascendo system created specifically for LED video applications. Its speakers are designed to fit the screen while preserving 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 the THE10 Passive Wedge 30, THE10 Passive On Wall, and THE10 Passive LED Phantom speakers handle the side, top, and rear channels.
Bass rumble comes courtesy of eight (yes, eight) THE28 Sub Pro Squared subwoofers and eight A1A1-10K2 IS infrasonic amplifiers.
It’s the sonic equivalent of a swan: while it may appear serene on the surface, there’s a lot of activity that can’t be seen thanks to StormAudio’s Elite 32 analog system. The sound system uses advanced calibration and spatial mapping to deliver coherent audio/video, compensating for the physical distance between the front channels.
According to PrimeTheater’s Helder Martins, whose company designed and built the facility, “This is more than a technology demonstration. It’s a masterclass in modern residential cinema, giving integrators a clear vision of how DCI-grade LED video and immersive audio designed for LED, combined with a room built for performance, raise expectations for what luxury home theater systems can (and should) deliver.”
The Luxury Immersion Cinema is at booth 2J500 at ISE 2026 this week, February 3-6.
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