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08/2019 Newsletter

by Nyal Mellor October 09, 2019

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Acoustic treatment makes all the difference!

Mr. D'Cunha is a home theater enthusiast from Australia who brought us in to create his dream home theater. We provided the following services: home theater layout, sub number and placement optimization, baffle wall design, riser design, and acoustic treatment design.

Whilst the room construction was completed two years ago, the acoustic treatment was only installed recently:

"I put all the panels up last Friday and did an Audyssey Pro calibration last night...the sound is absolutely amazing!...It's almost as if a veil has been lifted off the speakers, the surround speakers actually make me feel enveloped...before I could always pin point where the sounds where coming from...everything is so crystal clear and LFE is sensational!"

Below is a photo of the completed home theater - for more, read the case study here.

A high performance, budget home theater...

You don't have to commit to a design package to benefit from our home theater design expertise - excellent results can be achieved with just a few hours of consultation.

We recently completed a project with L.O., who contacted us for assistance with a high performance, yet budget conscious, home theater. In this case, we provided him with our by-the-hour consulting services.

Hourly consulting is not appropriate for every project, since it typically does not produce any formal deliverables. Design work is done at a high level, but this is often sufficient to steer a project to a great outcome. The client benefits by being able to consult with a home theater design specialist at a low cost, so that total project costs can be kept minimal.

You can read more about the process and end results here.

Cool stuff from around the web...

Crystal Screens - US made holographic projection screens

Inside Despacio, the world’s greatest club sound system

Despacio is the brain-child of audio engineer John Klett. It is a behemoth 10,000 watt, sound system designed to be completely portable. Each five-way stack of speakers features 21" and 15" low frequency woofers in addition to a 12" mid-range driver and two horns. The system is powered by eight racks of McIntosh tube amplifiers. To read more about this impressive system, visit the Musictech link below.

musictech.net

The Matrix theatrical return worth every penny

"If you have yet to see what Dolby Cinema is all about, you now have the perfect excuse to learn more: The Matrix is headed to AMC’s Dolby Cinema theaters at the end of August in celebration of the film’s 20th anniversary...The Dolby Cinema experience combines Dolby Atmos surround sound, which utilizes up to 128 speakers to create a remarkably realistic soundscape, with Dolby Vision, an advanced HDR solution that supports a billion shades of color."

digitaltrends.com

Design-Friendly Solutions for Sonos Integration

"In some spaces, it’s easy to tuck the Sonos speaker into a shelf or a nook, but sometimes the design of the space doesn’t quite match the look of the Sonos...Leon Speakers an industry veteran with a 20-plus-year track record of bringing a design eye to the AV world offers a number of products that were developed to complement and conceal Sonos speakers and amps. Their new Entre Series allows homeowners to bring a more personalized and artistic aesthetic to the Sonos experience."

connecteddesign.com

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