NOMN

Remote listening is older than radio. At the 1881 Paris Electrical Exhibition, Clément Ader's théâtrophone carried performances from the Opéra over paired telephone lines to two earpieces per listener, so one of the earliest public demonstrations of listening at a distance was already two-channel.

In New York in 1906, Thaddeus Cahill's Telharmonium played live music to telephone subscribers, the Café Martin among the first, over lines laid for it, and its signals bled into ordinary calls on neighboring lines. Mark Twain heard it in person at Telharmonic Hall in December 1906. Maryanne Amacher's City-Links works, begun in 1967, carried live sound from microphones placed around a city over dedicated, FM-quality telephone lines she rented, to a radio station, gallery or museum where she mixed it; the first, in Buffalo, ran for 28 hours on WBFO. Max Neuhaus's Radio Net (1977) ran for two hours over National Public Radio's telephone loop, built from whistles that listeners phoned in and an automatic system mixed. In 1987 Bill Fontana linked 18 live microphones in each of Cologne and San Francisco by satellite and mixed them at WDR for a broadcast carried by more than 50 radio stations. In 1991 Pauline Oliveros joined a tele-musical concert in which musicians in six US cities played together remotely, and she made telematic pieces into the 2010s. In the early 2000s Chris Chafe's group at Stanford's CCRMA wrote JackTrip, open-source software that carries uncompressed, low-latency audio between continents over research networks.

Outside those networks, sending many channels somewhere else and keeping them together has usually been costly. With the release of Eclipsa Audio, an open, royalty-free format that can carry stereo and multichannel audio, we wanted to make a low-cost service for people who occasionally need to collaborate remotely, perform remotely, run a sound installation from their own machine for a gallery far away, or otherwise stream high-quality audio elsewhere for any reason.

Most services assume a studio that accumulates heavy use, or a user with this need daily, and are priced accordingly, which makes them expensive for the occasional need. Our goal with NOMN REMOTE is an accessible, easy way for anyone to do this kind of streaming, while also meeting the needs of studios that require many simultaneous listeners and would prefer to pay as they go, based on actual costs for server time and data egress.

NOMN REMOTE puts the output of a computer-based audio session into a browser tab somewhere else. Insert it on a track or a bus in your DAW, press START, and send the link; the person on the other end opens it in a browser and hears the session as you play it, at the channel count you are working in. They install nothing and need no account, and their output device decides the render: 7.1.4 to a twelve-speaker room, stereo to headphones, 9.1.6 to an interface with sixteen or more outputs.

The audio stays lossless (FLAC inside IAMF), and the plugin passes your audio through untouched with no other DSP. Straight PCM would cost roughly 1.5 to 2 times the bandwidth for no difference in the signal.

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## How It Works

A stream reaches the listener page by one of two paths.

Direct. The plugin connects to one listener peer to peer over WebRTC. This has the lowest latency, and your uplink carries the stream once. A listener whose direct connection cannot form is moved to the relay. Useful between rooms without a Dante network or a patchbay.

Relay. The plugin sends each packet once to the NOMN edge, which copies it to every listener in the session, so up to fifty listeners receive the same stream at about the same time.

Both paths carry one format:

IAMF. Immersive Audio Model and Formats (the format behind Eclipsa Audio), carrying lossless FLAC that the browser decodes and renders to whatever layout the listener's device has, from stereo up to 9.1.6.

The listener page shows buffered milliseconds, dropouts and throughput, and a jitter buffer absorbs network variation. A shareable link opens a session of its own. A client or third party can be guided through the system with a few instructions.

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## Pricing

NOMN REMOTE is 200 JPY a month (about 1.33 USD), which includes 100 JPY of streaming time: 50 channel-listener-hours, where one channel-listener-hour is one channel heard by one listener for one hour. Included time expires at the end of each month and does not roll over. Beyond it, streaming costs 2 JPY per channel-listener-hour, metered by the minute and billed monthly. Peer-to-peer (Direct) streams never touch our server and are not billed; a listener moved to the relay is billed from that point. The plugin shows your usage live, and your nomn.jp account page shows the month to date.

Channel-listener-hours are channels x listeners x hours. Each line gives the hours used, how many of them the plan includes, and the month's total. USD is shown at 150 JPY to the dollar.

Stereo (2 channels)
- 1 listener x 5 h: 10 hours, all included. 200 JPY (1.33 USD)
- 3 listeners x 10 h: 60 hours, 50 included and 10 at 2 JPY. 220 JPY (1.47 USD)
- 10 listeners x 20 h: 400 hours, 50 included and 350 at 2 JPY. 900 JPY (6.00 USD)

5.1 (6 channels)
- 1 listener x 5 h: 30 hours, all included. 200 JPY (1.33 USD)
- 3 listeners x 10 h: 180 hours, 50 included and 130 at 2 JPY. 460 JPY (3.07 USD)
- 10 listeners x 20 h: 1,200 hours, 50 included and 1,150 at 2 JPY. 2,500 JPY (16.67 USD)

7.1 (8 channels)
- 1 listener x 5 h: 40 hours, all included. 200 JPY (1.33 USD)
- 3 listeners x 10 h: 240 hours, 50 included and 190 at 2 JPY. 580 JPY (3.87 USD)
- 10 listeners x 20 h: 1,600 hours, 50 included and 1,550 at 2 JPY. 3,300 JPY (22.00 USD)

7.1.4 (12 channels)
- 1 listener x 5 h: 60 hours, 50 included and 10 at 2 JPY. 220 JPY (1.47 USD)
- 3 listeners x 10 h: 360 hours, 50 included and 310 at 2 JPY. 820 JPY (5.47 USD)
- 10 listeners x 20 h: 2,400 hours, 50 included and 2,350 at 2 JPY. 4,900 JPY (32.67 USD)

Third-order ambisonics (16 channels)
- 1 listener x 5 h: 80 hours, 50 included and 30 at 2 JPY. 260 JPY (1.73 USD)
- 3 listeners x 10 h: 480 hours, 50 included and 430 at 2 JPY. 1,060 JPY (7.07 USD)
- 10 listeners x 20 h: 3,200 hours, 50 included and 3,150 at 2 JPY. 6,500 JPY (43.33 USD)

We set these prices from our actual running costs, server bandwidth and payment fees. If those costs rise significantly we will change the price. We do not anticipate moving to a flat subscription or license, the model most services in this space use, which charges the same whether you stream once a month or every day. The idea is a self-sustaining service for our users that aligns with the multichannel basis of many of the tools we release.

Competitor figures were compiled in fall 2026 from each service's public pricing pages and launch announcements, and may since have changed. Check each vendor's current page before deciding.

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## Features & Formats
Key Features:
- Multichannel Streaming: stereo, quad, 5.1, 7.1, 7.1.4 and 9.1.6 to a browser. No proprietary processing: these are standard layouts, and you can route or repurpose the channels however your work requires.
- IAMF Path: lossless FLAC in IAMF, rendered to the listener's speaker layout.
- Direct or Relay: peer to peer for latency, edge relay for many listeners.
- No Install for Listeners: a link and a browser tab.
- Shareable Sessions: one link per session.

Compatibility:
Formats: VST3, Audio Unit (AU), Standalone.
OS: macOS 13.0 or later and Windows 10 or later (64-bit)
Listener: a current browser. Choosing a multichannel interface needs Chrome or Edge; Safari and Firefox play through the system output however it is configured.
Network recommendations: budget 1 Mbps per channel at 48 kHz / 24-bit (roughly double at 96 kHz). Each listener needs 1 Mbps per channel down. Your uplink needs 1 Mbps per channel on either path: 16 channels on Relay is 16 Mbps up, and 16 channels Direct to one listener is also 16 Mbps up. This is now feasible in many parts of the world. Results will vary with network conditions on both ends; we recommend wired ethernet for critical applications.