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The volume dial is very granular in terms of adjustments, but while the three control buttons (Edit, Enter and Exit) allow for minimal adjustments, the Astral 16 can only be set up and fully controlled using a web-based interface.

The design has a simple elegance, with a large (4.3in) central TFT display that provides general information, three control buttons, a sizable volume dial, and a power switch. After all, the chances are itвЂ™ll be sitting in an equipment room (and comes with rack ears). As such, the Astral 16 has an industrial design often associated with dedicated home cinema builds, where the emphasis is on robust construction rather than looks.

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All this multichannel potential can be corralled using Dirac Live, but if you prefer a more hands-on approach there are filters, EQ curves and bass crossovers galore.ДЄt ВЈ20,000, this is clearly a high-end product aimed squarely at the custom install market. The Astral 16 has the processing power to utilise all those channels, delivering a hat-trick of immersive audio formats: Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, and Auro-3D. The remaining four channels use balanced XLR outputs, and all channels are fully configurable from 2.0 to 9.1.6 and just about everything in between, including bi-amping speakers and any number of subwoofers. The result is a 16-channel AV processor that includes 12 channels of Class D Pascal Audio amplification, able to deliver, it's claimed, 200W simultaneously to each channel. However, this is no solo effort thanks to the involvement of Immersive Audio Technologies, a company with a long home cinema history via its association with Storm Audio and Auro Technologies. Steve Withers dabbles in astral sound projection with FocalвЂ™s 16-channel home cinema processor and amplifierДЇocal is known as a speaker manufacturer, which makes its Astral 16 AV processor/amp something of a new direction.

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