11-Mar-2016, 15:45
(10-Mar-2016, 17:29)ragwo Wrote: First, kudos to Devialet support for answering quickly
So for the not so good news. They bypassed both Spark and Dialog during the demo and used what Devialet calls a professional setup with a special box to distribute the signal to the speakers. This box is not available for customers, so will just have to wait for another solution.
Sounds like they just cut up the signal. If they created 3 different setups for example. Setup 1 is front left and right speaker using the livingroom zone. Setup 2 is rear left and right speaker using the kitchen zone. Setup 3 is center mono speaker using bathroom zone. They then use a box that receives hdmi/dolby or toslink/dolby and divide this signal into left/right front analog, left/right rear analog and center analog outputs. They can then send each analog signal to 3 different analog digital converters (ADC). Each one plugs into a phantom or dialaog. They can then set up 3 different systems playing each their own sound of the same 5.1 track. Maybe they made 1 box to do all of this in stead of many different, but I suspect that this is what they have done. They probably also used a delay box for each system to get all the audio in sync. Just my 2 cents, since I figured out that I would do the same if I was to try out Phantoms in cinema mode.
