Behind the Business
Here Come The Smart Appliances
They will soon be arriving to a home network near you — and here’s why you should care.
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Features
Case Study: Show and Sell
Sound Effects in Mesa, AZ, upgrades its home theater demo with AudioControl.
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How Are You, Really?
Business owners and managers need to be aware of their employees’ mental health.
Features
Joel Silver and the Science of Images
A conversation with the winner of CEDIA’s 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award.
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2019 Companies to Watch
A look at some of the custom integration successes from the past year — and how they set up the industry for next year.
Features
New Takes on Tech Training
Technology keeps changing, and so does the way we learn about it.
News
Construction Monitor Announces Real-Time Building Permit Mapping Application
First-time CEDIA Expo exhibitor to show tool that visually displays where all new homes, remodels, and commercial properties will be built at booth 2800.
News
Simply Reliable Releases New smartOFFICE Features
Now includes proposal sharing, zero setup, and data exporting designed as a process workflow solution.
Features
Massachusetts AV Firm is a Family Affair
Three Brothers Combine Talents to Lead Inspired Technology and Communications in Easton, MA
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21st Century Distributing Talks Commercial Crossover
Q&A With PowerHouse Alliance Member on Diversifying Your Work
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PowerHouse’s White Label Line
The PowerHouse Alliance will soon launch its first white label line to help its collective of 12 distributors provide more price options and profit...
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Two Years of Origin Acoustics
At CEDIA 2016, Origin celebrated its two-year anniversary with new partnerships and nearly 40 new products. Residential Systems reached out to Burkhardt to learn...
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James Loudspeaker’s Custom Niche
There’s so very little “custom” manufacturing being done in the custom integration business these days that a company like James Loudspeaker really stands out.
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The DaVinci Group: A Better Partner
The DaVinci Group has been thinking outside the box when it comes to forming partnerships to distribute its high-end audio products.
CEDIA Show
CEDIA Tech Teasers
Excitement is building with EXPO 2015 just weeks away, so Residential Systems sat down with several of the industry’s most high-profile manufacturers to find...
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Control4’s Miguel Perez Talks Customer Satisfaction
Control4 has been putting in a lot of work lately to improve its dealer and end-user training to deliver the best results possible to...
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Q&A With Thiel Audio’s New CEO John Wittman Addresses Challenges and Opportunities Ahead
In July, Thiel Audio announced that it would be making big changes to its organization, as part of an effort to revitalize the legendary...
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New Owners of Richard Gray’s Power Company Blend New and Existing Technologies
AV systems have changed dramatically over the last several years, and because of their robust functionality and advanced technologies, they are far more sensitive...
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Atlona CEO Ilya Khayn Reflects on 10-Year Anniversary
Atlona offers a portfolio of audio-video connectivity products that serve a range of residential and commercial applications, from multi-room AV distribution and custom home...
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Baldwin, Kwikset Wireless Locks Offer Personalized Luxury
In light of a recent John Sciacca blog metaphor that automated door locks represent “the tip of the automation iceberg” that is going to...
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RTI’s Two Decades in Control
Control systems manufacturer RTI celebrated its 20th anniversary this year, in part, by hosting the 2012 RTI Global Partner Summit, which welcomed some of...
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Tech Tools of the Trade
Platinum Tools launched its new VDV MapMaster 2.0 voice, data, and video tester to the CEDIA market during the 2012 CEDIA EXPO, held last...
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Boosting Your Signal
Consider this scenario: your high-net-worth client, for whom no expense is ever spared, hears his cell phone ring and immediately runs outside to answer...
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Some Light on the Subject
CYRON, a Chatsworth, CA, company with more than 20 years of experience in semiconductors, design, manufacturing, and distribution, now manufactures and distributes solid-state lighting...
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Bob Carver LLC Startup Has a Blast While Braving the Economy
“Life is too short to not do exactly what you want to do,” Bob Farinelli, president of Bob Carver LLC told me. Farinelli,...
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Expanding Resources
As the story goes, SnapAV is the vision of Jay Faison, a former custom AV integrator and owner in Charlotte, NC, who in 2005...
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Flexible and Dependable
ELK Products first made its name in the security channel, where it has helped lead the migration toward more automation offerings.
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Poised for a Boom
Remote systems monitoring jumped from the enterprise IT channel into the custom integration industry less than three years ago and has been gradually picking...
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AV from the Cloud
Last month at CEDIA EXPO, VidaBox introduced its LC-300 LiivController, which is the latest multiroom audio control and automation system powered by the manufacturer’s...