Tannoy 5.1 Professional Eyris Active Home Theater Speakers, Incudes Professional software and Amp modules. MASSIVE SUB, AWESOME!! $24,000 retail. TRADES OK

Complete Home theater Speaker system (with powerful built in amps in each speaker and massive sub).

The set includes three active DCC Master speakers, 2 active DCC surrounds, and a Large powered sub with 2 12" drivers and 1500 watt amp.
The DCC speakers each have 300 watts, for a total of 3000 watts in the system. This was designed for professional installations and comes with all the software to calibrate to flat frequency response.( Comes with cables too!) Originally $24,000 and blows away conventional systems.

If you have an OPPO 95, it will provide the source and processing--that is all you need. Surely this is the least expensive route to full range high end home theater. Now just $6800! Selling for financial reasons. Includes cables! Come to South Bend to hear this incredible home theater system.

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Home Theater that Sounds like the Real Thing:
iDP Technology Tunes Loudspeakers to your Room
by Charles Conte for Tannoy

The iDP software package allows the installer to alter the precision, factory-defined frequency response for each loudspeaker and add delay to the system so that audio performance is perfectly matched to the acoustics of a particular home theater environment.

Description

Features Specifications

EYRIS DCC iDP

The core technologies of UK loudspeaker manufacturer, Tannoy, have recently been updated. The result is a fully re-engineered Dual Concentric™ drive unit and an improved, ultra high performance SuperTweeter™, which is a key component within Tannoy’s long-term development programme of WideBand™ technology.

Tannoy’s highly experienced engineering team also have direct access to leading edge digital and electronic technologies due to its partnership with the TC Group of companies. The amalgamation of these core strengths has led to the development of Tannoy iDP™ (Interactive Digital Programming) Technology and its first application in the Eyris loudspeaker range.

Eyris iDP™ loudspeakers offer perfect matching to the listening environment through its built-in room equalisation capability. Each loudspeaker can be individually optimised, taking into account its exact position within the room relative to the room boundary, and its own performance relative to the acoustic properties of the room. The primary features include:

On-board digital processing and networking capability
On-board bi-amplification with 300 Watts RMS to LF and 300 Watts RMS to HF
Advanced technology software package for professional system installation
Comprehensive user control of key functions and retrieval of installer pre-set parameters
Compatibility with market-leading automated control systems - e.g. Crestron / AMX
Dual Concentric™ and WideBand™ technologies
Elegant, high rigidity cabinet design in a choice of three real wood finishes; sycamore, American walnut or black ash.

Providing the Eyris models with their natural voicing platform, the iDP™ system facilitates factory calibration of the bandwidth response of the individual speakers to within extremely tight tolerances, exceeding even the current exacting standards of the Pro monitoring industry.

Using the supplied installer software package, the installer is able to build on the factory defined voicing platform by optimising the system to the acoustics of the installation environment. Tannoy iDP™ digital processing allows exact acoustic profiling of each speaker in the system, optimising its performance relative to its location, whether that be in free space, close to wall, corner placement or in-wall. A system controller can then be configured with a range of bespoke pre-sets, personalised for the end user.

Eyris iDP™ will be available as a complete home theatre package for professional installation. In its basic 5.1 configuration, the system comprises four active Eyris iDP™ DC3 floor standing loudspeakers and a DCC centre channel. Also included is a powerful 1.5 Kilowatt subwoofer with two side firing, 12” aluminium-coned drive units, and onboard iDP™ engine. The system, however, can be configured in any combination and number of DC3s, DCCs and subwoofers.

Summarising the bespoke nature of the Eyris iDP™ system, Graham Hendry, Tannoy’s Professional Engineering Director explained, “In a theatre, an installer would not just get the speakers out of the box, hang them around the auditorium and expect them to perform at their best. The installer would need to measure the performance of each speaker relative to its position and function within the theatre. For the first time ever, Eyris iDP™ allows the consumer to experience this same precise level of optimisation in their own living room.”

Increasingly, customers expect exceptional sound to accompany recent major advances in vision products. The highly versatile Tannoy Eyris iDP™ uniquely offers a complete solution in that it can be tailored precisely to the end users listening environment and personal audio preferences.

Sound for home theater - the kind of sound that engenders what's termed, "the immersion experience" - is not dependent on loudspeakers alone. Nor on amplifiers, a DVD player, cables, or any other gear.
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What makes home theater sound like a movie theater is the loudspeakers and the particular room they occupy. The immersive feel of home theater, where the surround sound envelops you in the total experience, comes from a perfect balance between image and sound. Anything that throws this balance off, works against the experience. The space needs to make psychoacoustic sense to the brain; your visual perception of the room has to balance with your auditory perception. If it doesn't, your brain gets very upset, quite literally.

Of course, to achieve that immersion experience, you need excellent loudspeakers. But you also need a room with the proper geometry and acoustic treatment. The loudspeakers and the room together form a system. Tuning this system, getting the loudspeakers to work within a given space, is absolutely critical to the immersion experience. Tuning the loudspeakers to the room is the final, critical step in home theater setup. Improper or in-expert tuning can make a hash of the whole experience.

iDP Technology: Making Psychoacoustic Sense

When it comes to tuning a surround sound system to the listening environment, iDP (interactive digital processing) technology leaves nothing to chance. It gives AV systems installers full control over a fully active home theater system.

The Origins of iDP Technology
In early 2002, 75-year old English loudspeaker manufacturer, Tannoy, merged with Danish digital signal processing manufacturer, TC Electronic. Both companies identified in each other the essential technological expertise, in loudspeaker acoustics and digital electronics, for developing premium audio systems solutions for the residential and professional markets.

Tannoy re-engineered its patented, core technologies: the constant directivity, point-source Dual Concentric driver and the ultra high performance, WideBand SuperTweeter.

TC Electronic drew on its deep knowledge of digital signal processing and control technology.

The combination Tannoy's and TC's technological expertise resulted in the development of Tannoy iDP (interactive digital processing) technology and its first application in the Eyris iDP range of loudspeakers for the home theater market.

The concept of incorporating digital signal processing into a loudspeaker made its first appearance in professional studio monitoring for music and film mixing.

In essence, iDP technology allows a system installer to tune an individual loudspeaker/room system to match a specific home theater environment.

Not to be left out of the picture-or sound-for-picture-the home theater owner has access to various system pre-sets created by the installer. But primarily, iDP technology is an installer tool, and an essential one, for customizing a surround system to make psychoacoustic sense in a particular space and creating that home theater immersion experience.

iDP: What it Consists of

First of all, it is a powerful software package. iDP digital programming enables factory calibration of the frequency response of individual speakers to extremely tight tolerances-tolerances exceeding even the exacting standards of the professional monitoring industry. Every speaker in a surround sound system is established with its own natural voicing platform. It's perfect, flat in both amplitude and phase.

iDP technology is also a loudspeaker system. Enough to say here, as realized in the Eyris range of loudspeakers from Tannoy, the iDP loudspeaker system incorporates two technologies that greatly increase accuracy and extended frequency range over conventional loudspeakers: Dual Concentric driver design and the WideBand SuperTweeter. The Tannoy Eyris loudspeakers are also bi-amplified.

iDP: How it Works

The iDP software package allows the installer to alter the precision, factory-defined frequency response for each loudspeaker and add delay to the system so that audio performance is perfectly matched to the acoustics of a particular home theater environment.

On-board digital processing allows the exact acoustic profiling of each loudspeaker, optimizing its performance relative to its location--whether that be in free space, close to a wall, in a corner, or in-wall. (Additionally, a loudspeaker placed against a padded wall is not going to perform the same as one placed against a glass wall.)

The iDP software has four bands of EQ with five different types of filters built in. It's highly flexible, very much like a pro hardware or software based EQ system. The installer communicates (via a PC and RS232 connection) with each loudspeaker --in-place, in the actual home theater environment --and adjusts it to compensate for variations in room acoustics. Using the iDP software, the installer can get each speaker back to its ideal frequency response programmed in at the factory so it performs exactly the same, under real world conditions.

Similarly, programmable delay lines in the software can compensate for imperfect speaker locations. For e.g.: the LCR front loudspeakers in a surround system should function as a single, large loudspeaker, their aural information arriving at the listener/viewer's ear at the same time. Often LCR loudspeakers are of unequal distance from central viewing/listening position. By physically measuring the distance from the loudspeakers to the listener's ears, the installer comes up with a differential that he can correct by adding delay to the system, virtually changing the physical position of each loudspeaker in space.

In short, iDP technology eliminates the effects of the room and the effects of distance.

The System Owner

The system owner has access to the installer-defined pre-sets for AV or 2.1 stereo program - e.g. global volume, system mute, bass management, reference levels, etc.- via the display panel on each loudspeaker...

or by using industry standard network controllers such as AMX or Crestron.

Crestron ST-1700C wireless touchpanel

For the system owner, iDP technology and powered loudspeakers deliver audio-for-video with the need for an amplifier and all the wires that would connect to it. A DVD player and a system interface (such as the Crestron wireless controller) are all that's required.

Currently the only incarnation of on-board DSP (digital signal processing) technology in a totally integrated residential audio system is from Tannoy. But the basic idea has turned up in offerings from other manufacturers. Expect DSP to find its way into other high-end surround sound products in the near future.

Tannoy Eyris iDP Loudspeaker System

Initially, the Tannoy Eyris iDP loudspeaker system is being offered as a complete home theater package for professional installation.

In its basic 5.1 configuration, the system consists of: four active Eyris iDP™ DC3 floor standing loudspeakers with 500 Watts RMS to LF and 250 to HF; a DCC center channel with 500 Watts RMS to LF and 250 to HF; and a 1000 Watt subwoofer with two side firing, 12" aluminum-coned drive units, and onboard iDP engine. However, the system can be configured in any combination and number of DC3's and DCC's. Networking facilities allow expansion for 5.2, 6.1, etc. and for future compatibility, the system can accept direct digital 192kHz inputs.

The DC3's and DCC loudspeakers feature both Dual Concentric and WideBand technologies. The Dual Concentric driver offers phase-coherent, point-source sound reproduction and a 90 degree symmetrical dispersion pattern. Operating between the roll-off point of the Tannoy Dual Concentric high frequency unit and 54kHz, the SuperTweeter reproduces the leading edge of individual notes, allowing the listener to experience the entire bandwidth information of instruments