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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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Installing Solar Theaters
Controlling the power that feeds your systems may be a lucrative move for your business.
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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...
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Rayva Now Offers Flexible Equipment Choices to Simplify Home Theater Sales
Company Now Allows Integrators to Choose the Brands That Go Into Pre-Engineered Home Theater Designs
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Keeping an Eye on Your Systems
Our Industry’s Lack of Set-It-and-Forget-It Equipment, Provides a Prime Opportunity for Remote Quality Assurance and Monitoring
Connectivity
Locking Down Source Switching and Wi-Fi in a Utah Theater Project
Tym Smart Homes & Home Theaters Installs Luxul Network Solutions for Improved Speed and Reliability for 4K Video Distribution System and Wi-Fi
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Severtson Screens Lowers Home Theater Screen Prices
Company Also Provides Dealers and Distributors with Free Shipping in Continental U.S.
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Metra Home Theater Group Partners with AiN Group
Home Theater and Accessory Technology Now Available Through the Authorized Integrators Network Group
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Firmware: To Update, or Not to Update?
Avoiding the Pitfalls of System Failure From Firmware Updates
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How to Maximize Dialog Intelligibility
Dialog clarity is perhaps the most important performance aspect for audio systems, and compromised quality is a very bad thing. But how does it...
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The Challenges of Running HDR Via HDMI
It’s January 6 as I write this, and I just talked to my tech editor, Chase.
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The Source Matters
If you play cheap content, it’s not going to sound good. This is just as important a part of the client education process as...
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Home Theater Yoga Moves
So a client comes to you and says, “I love movies from a lot of different eras, but there are so many different picture...
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The Great Equalizer: The Key to an Ideal Listening Environment
EQ units increase your sales and your client contentment factor. Don’t let fear or ignorance stand in your way, here.
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Grimani Looks to Solve 50 Audio Integration Problems
In an Omni hotel suite during CEDIA in October, Anthony Grimani provided a lengthy explanation of the design process and what makes Grimani Systems'...
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Picking the Right Speakers
My purpose here is to help you pick speakers that will generally sound better in your installations, and will generate more client satisfaction, with...
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Home Theater Checkup Time
It’s still pretty rare for me to encounter an integrator that provides regularly scheduled system checkups. We need more folks to jump on this...
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Trust, but Verify Video
You need to have a systematic approach to verifying the audio and video performance of your installations–using reliable test vectors and documenting the resulting...