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The Home Theater Dream Team
The challenge of successfully blending design, acoustics, and technology teams to create the ultimate private cinema.
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The Scalable Path to Luxury Cinema
Even in the world of high-end theater design, there is room for good, better, best options.
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Design of the Times
Keeping up with the light-speed evolution of private cinema technology.
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Home Theater Week: Navigating Through Entertainment Seating
Not all seating is created equal.
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The Evolution of Home Theater
How multi-sport simulators and Esports are re-shaping dedicated theater and media room design.
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Luxury Week: Lifestyle Tech and Design for the Luxury Client
An interior designer’s view on working with high-end clients — and the integrators they employ.
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Home Theater Week: Sense-sational Theater Design
How technology and interior design of screening rooms relate to the fundamental senses.
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Delivering the Ultimate Professional Private Screening Room
Why you need to include the customer in the development of the ideal home theater experience.
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Five Things I’ve Learned About Designing for Luxury Clientele
A look inside the mind of an ultra-high-end client.
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Commercial Design Quickly Making Its Way Home
Far more than a catchy term, “resimercial” is a multi-faceted trend that’s not just here to stay but one that’s influencing how we approach...
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Changing Trade Perceptions
Why the “digital canvas” approach to tech appeals to architects and interior designers.
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Understanding the Role of the Interior Designer
Takeaways for engaging with, earning trust, and getting referrals from interior designers.
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Illuminating Ideas for a Better Home Theater Design
Lighting plays a leading role in the look, feel, and performance of a home theater, so make sure to give it serious attention.
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Case Study: Innovative Design and AV Unite to Solve Seating Dilemma
This solution allows the projector to stay hidden in the soffit, completely out of the way of audience members, while exposing only a slim...
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The Art of Home Theater
A well-designed home cinema provides clients with a wow factor before any AV is activated.
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Top 10 Home Theater Design Trends
An inside look at what's hot in the world of home theater design.
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Immersive Sound: More Than a Numbers Game
The promise of immersive audio in private cinemas goes way beyond the number of channels used.
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The High-End Audio Artist
David Frangioni, owner of Audio One, tells how he does it all from professional recording studios to high-end home theaters and whole-house automation systems.
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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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Creating Sonic Connoisseurs
Making the Appreciation of ‘Sound’ a Passion for Our Clients to Pursue
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Piecing Together the Elephant
Great Theater Design Requires the Contribution and Coordination of Many Trades
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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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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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How Flooring Affects Acoustics in Home Theaters
Sam Cavitt breaks down the significant influence that flooring can have on the performance of a private theater.
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Making Your Sound Hemispherical
For a smaller room, a 5.1.2 configuration may be perfect. But a large room may require 24.1.10. The point is that the channels are...
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Buy in by Architects for Home Theaters
The following is a recommendation of how to influence architects to consider a dedicated theater room early in the design phase.
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Design to Preserve Your Theater’s Image
Aside from the obvious goal of creating an environment that provides entertainment, excitement, and fun, the objective of designing a private theater should be...
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Educating Clientele on Investing in a Great Theater
In the design and engineering of a private theater, when is it appropriate to take it “to the Nth degree?” This is the question...
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Designing Professional Screening Rooms for Private Homes
Designing private theaters is a great business.
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Avoiding Oversights in Private Theater Lighting Designs
We often hear comments like, “What’s the big deal, it is supposed to be a dark room anyway” or “The lighting design has already...
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Teaching Clients that a High-End Private Theater Requires the Expertise of Many Trades
Our industry is wrought with buzzwords and acronyms, and “turnkey” is a term that has been thrown about for a long time.
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Auro 3D and Dolby Atmos Compete for 3D Audio Format Supremacy
You may not remember Beta versus VHS, but we were all here for Blu-ray versus HD DVD, and now we have Dolby Atmos versus...
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Dividing Private Theater Budgets into Five Sellable Categories
In a recent workshop on selling high-performance solutions, the question was asked, “What is the first piece of information that you provide to your...
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Bad Habits to Avoid While Selling Private Theaters
People have been selling home theaters for more than 20 years–certainly long enough to have gotten it right.
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Selling the Wrong Chair Can Negate Careful AV Engineering
The audience experience is the most important element in a private theater design, from the accuracy of the audio system to the stunning visual...
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Choosing a Ceiling Design That Doesn’t Destroy a Theater’s Acoustics
When creating private theater rooms, many designers and architects now understand the need for acoustical treatments in walls and that we don’t want large...
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A Bad Environment for Audio Fails Our Clients
Most professional integrators would never consider installing a high-performance video projection system in a white room with windows and high levels of ambient light,...
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‘We Don’t Need a Home Theater’
I participated in a panel discussion at CEDIA EXPO where the subject was the trend away from “dedicated theaters” toward “mixed-use rooms.”
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Luxury Markets Take Discipline
Several years ago we were invited to deliver a talk to the senior class at a local interior design school.