He arrived already fluent in the language of high-end audio and knew exactly how good he wanted it to sound. What won him over was Dellicompagni's opening idea that a great cinema begins with the room, long before any product list. Dellicompagni then set out to find the best possible sound in a room that was already built and could not be altered.
The answer was an 11.1.6 immersive system with 17 discrete speakers placed with great care, tuned toward RP22 Level 3, and anchored by a Trinnov Altitude 32 and an 8x4 Ascendo subwoofer array shaped through planar waveforming, so the bass feels like part of the room itself. On screen, a 97-inch LG G5 OLED, chosen over projection and MicroLED so the room stays lovely in daylight, is paired with a Lumagen Radiance Pro. The client's passion for DJing was welcomed into the design too, with a dedicated audio limiter so his decks and the reference cinema system can share the space safely.
The design worked entirely within the room's existing physics and dimensions, with an informal target of RP22 Level 3 set.
A dedicated audio limiter was specified between the decks and the Trinnov Altitude 32, connected via balanced XLR to keep gain structure clean and protect against clipping.
The acoustic panel system's absorption-to-reflection balance was deliberately adjusted to compensate, keeping the room's reflection decay time within its RP22 target rather than pushing back on the material choice.
An even-numbered, eight-unit front array was used instead of a simpler four, keeping drivers out of the centre-channel zone while improving control.
