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Control4 CEO Martin Plaehn on… the Journey to 2022
During a recent interview for a Residential Systems cover story, Plaehn was particularly impressive with his clear, detailed, nuanced vision of what he calls...
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A Solid Power Foundation
It’s one of the only things that you’ll install that will never make a client smile in amazement; in fact, it’s something they will...
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CI 2022: Industry Projections From Experts
Stop and think about this for a moment: How much better would your decisions be if you knew today where the industry was headed...
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CES Quick Takes: OLED, Short-Thow Projectors, and More
“Short Takes” has long been a media staple, presenting top stories in a condensed form so that they are easy to understand and digest.
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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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Managing Your AV Guilt
They say the first step to recovery is admitting that you have a problem.
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Getting Into the Right Mindset
Before he joined Glick Audio and Video in south central Pennsylvania, Nick Cove was running cables for live sound–concerts and the like.
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DSP at CES, And Other Audio Trends
The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is not an easy hang.
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Inside Super Bowl Champion Nick Collins’ Smart Home
ELAN Controlled Home Includes Lots of Audio
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Adding Creature Comforts to Your Offerings
Intelligent HVAC Systems Can Round Out Your Expertise
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How Do You Describe Your Business?
Adding Marketing Skills to Your Business Acumen for 2017
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Making RMR Work for Your Business
Recurring monthly revenue (RMR) has been a hot topic post-CEDIA 2016. Wondering where to start?
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Resi Talks: Experience Counts
Residential Systems sat down with Monika Hill, project manager/system designer for Fusion Media Systems of Kirkwood, MO, to find out about the state of...
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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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DIY Manufacturers: Meet Us in the Middle
If you are a maker of a DIY product, there’s ample opportunity for partnerships here. But if you’re looking for sustainable success with a...
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Will Voice Control… Control Your Future?
Based on conversations with multiple manufacturers with differing levels of commitment to the integration of a voice user interface in their systems, most showed...
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Winning Bids
With the host of excellent tools available today, you can have your company copasetic in no time, leaving you free to do what you...
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Tapping Into New Connections From CEDIA
Chances are, you left CEDIA with a stack of business cards, and although you may have had the best of intentions to connect with...
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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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Getting the Most From Your Facility
One of the challenges with the home technology integration industry is finding a consistent business model for success. The trouble is that each market...
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Frictionless Home Design
As a home technology integrator, one of the most important services that we provide our clients is a whole-house control system that best matches...
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The Power of Preparation
What will you do to prepare for your next encounter with a new client? How will you separate yourself the competition? Are you ready...
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The Lost Art of Qualifying
Recently, while I was researching the growing sales of analog turntables, vinyl records, and analog two-channel systems, an integrator told me that he had...
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Relationship Building
For our new series of interviews with home technology professionals, Residential Systems reached out to Matt May, president of KMR Audio Visual of Fulshear,...
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Giving Theaters Luxury Cred
Private theater professionals share a singular goal: To have the opportunity to provide our best efforts to as many appreciative clients as possible.
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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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CEDIA 2016: A Show of Partnerships
CEDIA certainly was all about adding Alexa voice control to custom-centric control systems and once-combative brands playing nice with the now more inclusive Sonos...
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Properly Valuing Your Services
When I owned my integration business, I was regularly asked how competitive my prices were, if my prices were similar to those online, if...
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Keeping Up to Date on IoT
I had never met anyone from Cyprus, the tiny island in the Mediterranean Sea tucked below Turkey and above Egypt, where the spoken language...
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Raising Awareness of the Industry
Residential Systems recently reached out to Drew Harber, owner of Harber Home Theater, Norman, OK, (harberokc.com) to find out about the state of his...
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Are You Ready for Wireless Power?
Most long-distance wireless power systems today lose as much as 50 percent of their energy into thin air.
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NAD Electronics With BluOS: A High-Res Reintroduction
With the BluOS-equipped NAD line, customers can opt for a professionally installed, rack-based, hardwired audio solution–but with the reassurance that they can also easily...
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The Need for Transparency
Most of us understand that it is easy to overwhelm clients with too much information. But how do our clients know that we are...
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CEDIA Gains Momentum
The CEDIA show motto is Think Big. For Vin Bruno, that seems to be a personal mantra, as well.
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Defining Your Brand
What is your message? Who do you want to be and why is it important to your audience?
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Managing a Miami-Area Mega Install
Situated just off the coast of Miami’s South Beach on Star Island, a stretch of land that is home to some of the brightest...