Home Theater

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5 Home Theater Trends Shaping the Industry

Dedicated home theaters are back by popular demand. Here’s what’s causing the revival.

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Check Your References

How to set a sound system that matches your client’s preferences.

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A Theater Worth Waiting For

Building a long-planned, commercial-level-quality Dolby Cinema in the home of Dolby execs.

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Certifiably Excellent Sound

KEF’s new home theater joins its Music Lounge and puts a spotlight on the impact that THX Certification can provide.

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Building A Private Cinema Community

Now is the time to build a customer-facing group of like-minded home theater enthusiasts.

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A Residential Cinema Renaissance

We’ve all had a bad cineplex experience — here is how to avoid those mistakes in home theaters.

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The Home C Suite

SoCal’s AVIR transforms a high-end home theater with Sony’s gorgeous, but very pricey, Crystal LED screen.

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A Fresh Perspective on Tuning Reverberant Rooms

How to make a bad situation “less bad.”

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All Around with Meyer Sound

Gaithersburg, MD’s All Around Technology uses Meyer Sound’s pro-level Bluehorn System loudspeakers to elevate a luxury home theater to the next level in immersive...

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Planning in the Pursuit of Perfection

How theater designers can be involved in all stages of a project to ensure the room is exactly what the client wants.

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Home Theater in the Spotlight

With the country’s attention finally turned our way, we have to make the most of the opportunity to provide next-level home cinema experiences.

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The Phantom of the Home Theater

Virtual speakers are no substitutes for ones that are properly placed and angled.

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The Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of Private Theater

If you can answer these questions for your prospective home theater customers, then they will have the information they need to make the right...

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Home Theater: It’s a Science, Not a Science Experiment!

Some tips on how to make projects less trial-and-error, and less stressful.

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The Key to a Better Builder Relationship

A home theater designer could be the builder liaison your business needs.

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Private Cinema Beauty, More Than Skin Deep

Addressing the issues that popular thinking brings to high-end home theaters.

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The Surprise Home Theater

Transforming a playroom in a New York City apartment to a fully functioning home theater in one clandestine month — don’t tell the family!

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Tech Showcase: AV Receivers 2019

What the latest crop of AV receivers is delivering to today’s home theaters.

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Living the Ultra-High Life

Two new ultra-high-end services take the best parts of the commercial theater experience and bring them into the home.

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The State of Surround Sound

The latest on formats and the challenges of installing and selling surround sound systems.

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Mounts and Enclosures Spotlight 2019

Showing support for the things that give us support.

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Installing Solar Theaters

Controlling the power that feeds your systems may be a lucrative move for your business.

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Survival of the Finest

Is the upscale home theater fated to go the way of the wild salmon?

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Case Study: Reaching for the Stars

Cobb Home Innovations brings immersion to new heights with a stellar theater built on the third floor of a home.

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So You Think You Know Kaleidescape?

There is more than meets the eyes and ears with the popular CI choice for home theater content.

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Full Circle Sound

WSDG - Walters-Stork Design Group applies the lessons learned in building world-class recording studios to ultra high-end home theaters.

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A Battle Royale for Home Entertainment

Video game content creators can provide a new dimension to your business.

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Rayva in Reality

Elevated Integration installs a Rayva home theater and gains a valuable new client.

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Tech Showcase: Projectors and Screens

A look at the latest technology and trends heading for home theaters.

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Tech Tip: Know When to Sell What Projector with Which Screen

Answering these questions will enable you to choose the right projector, in addition to the size, aspect ratio, screen material, and format of your...

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IMAX Enhanced Investigated

Pulling back the curtain on exactly how IMAX and DTS — along with partners Sony and Sound United — plan on bringing IMAX quality...

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Where Do We Go from Here?

Why we need to focus on the high-performance and luxury aspects of our industry.

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Home Theater Sound’s Next Wave

Home theater speakers get a makeover to accommodate smaller spaces and additional channels.

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Home Theater Design in an Immersive Audio World

Some findings from Trinnov's comprehensive Speaker Placement Recommendations design guide

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Fortress Revives Classic ’60s Theater Chair

Drawing upon its rich, 80-year heritage, Fortress Seating (CEDIA Expo booth 3129) is bringing back the Solo model as a reflection of today's design...