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A CEDIA Expo for the Cinema Connoisseur
We were finally able to gather as a community, but are some key home theater players being left out of the conversation?
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Home Theater Week Review: Sony HT-A9 Wireless Home Theater System
The HT-A9 offers a completely different look, design, and flexible installation that might make it a compelling alternative to a soundbar install.
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Home Theater Week: Elevated Expectations
Proper speaker elevation in an immersive sound system needs to consider all the speaker groups in the room.
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Home Theater Week: 10 Tips for Designing a Small Home Theater
The right seats, screen, and other accessories can make all the difference when building in tight spaces.
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Home Theater Week: 5 Home Theater Trends in 2022
Personal cinemas continue to be at the top of clients’ wishlists — here is what they are asking for.
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Case Study: Small Room, Extremely Large Screen
Two installation firms create an epic home theater with a 324-tile LED video wall, $500K worth of video equipment, 200 amps of protected power,...
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Case Study: A Recent Retiree’s Dream Room
Bravo AV breathes new life into a New Jersey home theater with Meridian Audio speakers and processing.
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Building the Best Team
It takes an incredible amount of talent and professionals to create the right private cinema experience.
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Luxury Redux
What’s in a name — true luxury service needs a clear message to separate itself from ‘pop culture’ luxury projects.
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So, How Is the Home Theater Business?
Home theaters are doing well, but they should be doing so much better.
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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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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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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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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.