MWAVE 2024
VIDEOS ON DEMAND
Replay seminars from industry leaders and professionals.
For just $75, get lifetime access to all 8 videos below with invaluable knowledge shared by industry leaders and experts in home theater during our seminars and tech talks.
Watch and rewatch these videos at your convenience, whether you attended the event or not.
Each year I hear, “I wish you could bring MWAVE to my city.”
I get it. It’s a huge financial commitment to attend MWAVE.
With travel, food, hotel and a car rental, that can make attending MWAVE out of reach for your budget.
That’s why we’re bringing MWAVE 2024 to you (or at least part of it).
What you’ll get:
1. Exclusive access: Learn from the best in the business. You’ll hear from Brett Bjorkquist (MRKTMKR), Anthony Grimani (Grimani Systems), Walt Zerbe (CEDIA), Simon Spears (OSD Audio) and others as they share their experience and vast knowledge of home theater with you.
2. Lifetime Access: Yup, that’s right. You get access to the videos for life! Feel free to revisit the sessions anytime to reinforce your learning or catch up on what you missed.
3. On-Demand Convenience: Watch the seminars at your own pace, on your schedule, from anywhere in the world.
4. Knowledge: Learn how to make your home theater the very best it can be, straight from the experts who set the standards.
How to Perform Expert Calibrations using Dirac
Description:
In this class calibration guru Matt Trinklein from StormAudio will demonstrate live how to perform a calibration using tools built into most Dirac capable surround receivers and processors.
- Pre-testing system tools and methods
- How to utilize third party software to verify the system
- How to align multiple subwoofers in a system
- How to phase align front channels and subwoofers
- What can be corrected and what can’t be corrected
- Target curves
- How to use and maximize Bass Control and Active Room Treatment (ART)
Matt Trinklein (StormAudio)
Theater Design 101
Description:
In this class we will teach you the correct design methodology for pre-engineering a high-performance private cinema or media room.
- Basic Design Methodology
- Room Analysis for Subwoofer System
- Real world applications of Atmos layouts
- SPL: How much is needed and how to calculate it?
- Acoustic Treatment Basics
Gary Blouse (StormAudio)
Educated Buyer – Projectors
Description:
What to look for when evaluating a projector.
Projectors at MWAVE 2024
Live demonstrations and discussion covering:
- Brightness
- Black Level
- Tone Mapping
- Contrast (Native vs ANSI)
- Color Gamut (BT.709, BT.2020, DCI-P3)
- Motion Interpolation & Refresh Rate
- Resolution (1080p, 4K, 4K E-Shift, 8K)
- Lamp vs. Laser
- Zoom & Focus
- Lens Shift
- Technology (D-ILA, DLP, LCD)
- Calibration considerations
- and more!
Nick Oldroyd
Andy Grimm
Media Room Design – A Case Study
Description:
Brett Bjorkquist walks the group through his latest personal project, a 5.2.4 system being built in a beautiful, but not very accommodating, open area media room. We’ll walk through the major decisions for the room to provide you with plenty of tips for building your own room.
- Thought process on seating and room design
- Identifying the issues with the room you’re building in
- Strategize on ways to remove or tame those issues
- Video and pics of actual build and programming
- Practical discussion on DSP adjustments and acoustic panels that get the SOA.
Brett Bjorkquist (MRKTMKR)
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Audio considerations for achieving Level 1-4 reference home theaters using CEDIA’s RP22
Description:
CEDIA’s recommended practices document details the technical requirements suggested for achieving reference performance in Home Theaters. This class will look at all of the Audio elements, including measurements and parameters that are required to achieve Level 1-4 theaters.
Performance Objectives
- Dialog clarity
- Localization accuracy
- Sound movement
- Sound field immersion and envelopment
- Tonal balance (timbre)
- Dynamic range
- Bass impact
- Audience coverage
- Sound isolation
Room Optimization
- Sound Transmission
- Sound Isolation
- Acoustical Treatment
Speaker Selection
- Performance specifications: Spatial resolution, Dynamic range, Timbre
- Measurements
- Calibration
Power Requirements
Walt Zerbe (CEDIA)
Simon Spears (OSD Audio)
Panel Discussion – Theater Design
Description:
Brett Bjorkquist from FAQnatics moderates an all-star panel as we reference classic questions and discuss best practices with the class, as well as providing plenty of time for attendees to get their personal questions answered by this group.
- Acoustic Fundamentals
- Room Design
Anthony Grimani (Grimani Systems)
Brett Bjorkquist (MRKTMKR)
Panel Discussion – Bass Management
Description:
Brett Bjorkquist from FAQnatics moderates an all-star panel as we reference classic questions and discuss best practices with the class, as well as providing plenty of time for attendees to get their personal questions answered by this group.
- Bass Management
Anthony Grimani (Grimani Systems)
Brett Bjorkquist (MRKTMKR)
Matt Trinklein (StormAudio)
Panel Discussion – Networked Audio
Description:
Why Networked Audio is the Future of Home Theater and Audio Distribution
- Case Study – CEDIA Expo Sound Room 10
- Elimination of Hum in the system
- Get rid of multiple expensive XLR cables and replace them with simple Ethernet cables.
- Speaker design (Grimani Systems)
- Processors with AES67 or Dante from StormAudio