Congratulations to Justin Gray for winning the 2026 Grammy Award for Best Immersive Audio Album. Immersed is a record conceived, recorded, and produced from the ground up for spatial audio, featuring 38 artists inside a 360-degree orchestral canvas. It is exactly the kind of work immersive audio was made for.
A Room Built for Immersive
Justin's studio in Canada is a purpose-built, exceptionally treated immersive room. He designed it himself. And yet, as he expanded from 7.1.4 to a full 19-speaker system with arrayed sides, wide surrounds, and center height channels, he reached a conclusion he puts plainly:
"The necessity for room correction is essentially an inevitability for everybody, no matter how well your room is designed."
What the Trinnov MC Pro gave him, fed via Dante from his Avid MTRX2, was a level of timing and phase precision that changed how he experienced the space itself.
"From the moment I heard it tune this room, I was instantly blown away. Every time I recalibrate, it's like the speakers just disappear. I just have a sphere to work in."
The Pursuit of Translation
For Justin, everything in that room serves one purpose: translation. His mixes need to hold up across smaller rooms, larger rooms, rooms in different countries, cinema sound stages.
"All of it is in the pursuit of translation. The decisions I make creatively, I want those to translate to the person who hears the music."
Last year, before any Grammy existed, Justin recorded a walkthrough of his studio and published it on his own initiative.
We were humbled. It goes to the heart of what Trinnov technology is built for: the Optimizer engine, the timing and phase correction, the Dante integration that has been part of our pro audio workflow since 2018, proven in the professional environments where the content people listen to at home is made.
Justin has been using the MC Pro for years. What his studio demonstrates, quietly, is that the value of a Trinnov processor lives in its technology rather than its release date. The Optimizer engine, the timing and phase correction, the Dante integration: these are not features tied to a single product. They are the result of over two decades of research, and they carry across everything we make.