I used the Storm in my system as a demo for a couple of weeks. It was able to produce tons of bass so don't use the loudness button. I actually used the Storm without a 271. I used a cat cable patch box that goes fro. CatX cables to AES3 XLR and then used AES3 to SPDIF converters into the DSPs. The Storm is a pretty cool product. The only thing that bothers me about it is there are zero units available on the used market. This suggests that either Storm owners love and will not part with them or, they are not selling very many of them. I suspect the latter.

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