Stephen Dawson

Is this the home theatre receiver we’ve all been waiting to get our hands on since Dolby Atmos was launched in 2012? Stephen Dawson checks it out to see how it stacks up. Storm Audio is a French company (France seems to be killing it in the audio field lately!) specialising in home theatre electronics. The ISR Fusion 20 is what it calls an “Immersive Sound Receiver”.

Combining sophisticated engineering with a staggering 220W of power, the latest amplifier from Advance Paris certainly catches the eye. Stephen Dawson checks it out. For many years, I used a pair of Marantz monoblock power amplifiers in my home theatre system. Of course, I also used a home theatre receiver – many over the years, often on loan. But there were few such receivers really suitable for driving my very difficult front stereo pair. These had a nominal impedance of just 3Ω.

Vanco’s Evolution line of solutions has debuted a 4K wireless HDMI extender. Stephen Dawson checks it out to see how it stacks up. Quite a few years ago, I had dinner with an acquaintance. Amongst other things, he was keen to show me his home theatre room. This was a little before the days of HDMI, yet he nonetheless had a ceiling-mounted home theatre projector to beam the image onto the projection screen, and a stack of electronics, including a home theatre receiver and DVD player.