Luxury Immersion Cinema Redefines What’s Possible in Residential LED Home Theater
At the visual core of the Luxury Immersion Cinema is Barco Residential’s Runar, the company’s LED video wall designed for luxury home cinema. Scheduled for DCI (Digital Cinema Initiatives) certification under the latest HDR standards, Runar represents the highest benchmark currently defined for cinema LED performance. Featuring a 0.9mm pixel pitch and native DCI 4K resolution (4,096 × 2,160), Runar delivers uncompromising cinematic image quality at residential viewing distances. Engineered with Micro LED in Package (MIP) technology, Runar is built for future-proof compatibility with premium DCI-HDR content.
With 100,000:1 contrast, ultra-deep 0.005 cd/m² black levels, and full DCI-P3 color coverage, Runar brings DCI-grade HDR at 300 nits and consumer HDR at up to 500 nits to life with remarkable precision. The result is a single LED video wall capable of presenting both professional cinema content and consumer formats seamlessly—something rarely achieved in residential environments.
Immersive Audio Designed for LED Cinema Environments
While LED video walls elevate visual performance, they fundamentally change how immersive audio must be designed because they don’t allow speakers to be placed behind the image, often forcing compromises in audio placement and performance.
The Luxury Immersion Cinema solves this challenge with a 14.8.8-channel ASCENDO immersive system engineered specifically for LED-based cinema applications. Recognizing the growing popularity of LED video walls in home environments, ASCENDO continues to innovate in LED screen wall audio, designing speakers that integrate around rather than behind the screens, preserving proper front-channel localization and cinematic realism.
“For LED applications, audio must be perceived as coming from the vertical center of the wall without exception,” says Geoffrey Heinzel, co-managing partner of ASCENDO. “Our design approach, as always, is to use point source speakers for seat-to-seat performance consistency in multi-seat home theater environments. Because our speakers are direct-radiating, they are capable of extremely high-performance results.”
Making its debut at ISE is ASCENDO’s latest speaker, designed for LED environments, THE8 PRO PASSIVE LED WEDGE. Six of these 3-way LED screen wall speakers will be used for the front channels. THE10 Passive WEDGE 30, THE10 Passive On Wall, and THE10 Passive LED Phantom speakers will be used for the side, overhead, and rear channels. Additionally, eight THE28 SUB PRO SQUARED subwoofers deliver extreme low-frequency infrasonic bass, amplified by eight corresponding ASCENDO AIA2-10K2 IS (infrasonic) amplifiers.
Orchestrating this high-performance ecosystem, StormAudio bridges the critical gap between the visual and audio domains. Since solid LED walls preclude the use of behind-screen speakers, the processing accuracy of the Elite 32 Analog becomes vital. It provides the advanced calibration and spatial mapping required to maintain perfect audio-video coherence, psychoacoustically placing the sound back within the image despite the physical displacement of the front channels, using StormAudio’s center shift feature. Powering this system is the Impulsion 8 amplifier, making its world debut. This new powerhouse delivers the dynamic range and transient response necessary to match the high-contrast intensity of Barco’s DCI-grade visuals.
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