- Custom Home Cinema Installation
Custom home Cinema Installation: a harmoniously-integrated
music, video, and/or control system created specifically
to meet the client's performance and visual aesthetic requirements,
achieved through careful product selection, clever installation
design, and meticulous implementation.
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We treat custom home Cinema installation
as a process. Each project begins with a careful and thorough
design interview. We determine your needs first by listening,
then later by asking probing questions. We suggest possibilities.
We discuss your lifestyle -- daily routine, entertaining
needs, special requirements for kids and guests. If needed
we'll visit your home or construction site. Attuned to
your needs, we then design a system and implementation
plan specifically for you. Indeed, we may design several
systems, showing you the costs / benefits of different
performance levels or system features.
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A Taste of What's Possible With a Home
Cinema System
To an audiophile with a dedicated room, custom home Cinema
installation might mean a proud display of electronic
components on beautiful award-winning "art furniture",
highlighted by halogen spotlights. Yet to another audiophile,
custom home Cinema installation might mean carefully concealing
all the electronics, cables, subwoofers, and maybe even
speakers.
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In a multi-room whole-house system, custom
home Cinema installation might mean a music-immersed lifestyle,
with hidden in-wall speakers in every room, and higher-performance
speakers in the den. It might mean outdoor speakers that
look like rocks, or underwater speakers for the in-ground
pool. It might mean an easy-to-use, custom programmed
portable color touchscreen control system, or it might
mean simple keypads in the walls.
Aesthetic Custom Home Cinema Integration with Architecture
and Interior Design
Most of our clients relish wonderful architecture. They
appreciate outstanding interior design. They admire craftsmanship.
And, of course, they love music and movies. So do we.
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As audio / video professionals, we form
a team with your architect, your interior designer, and
your craftsmen. Each discipline brings its expertise and
experience to bear on the common goal: create the best
space possible for you and your needs. Together the team
members propose ideas, improve them, and incorporate them
into an overall design.
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Sometimes there are tradeoffs. The best-sounding
speaker might be too visually prominent. Or the room dimensions
might be acoustically unfortunate. Or wallpaper in the
home theater might tint the video green. In these tradeoff
situations, we don't advocate; we educate. Once we've
informed you of the multi-disciplinary consideration,
you can then make your best decisions.
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A few words about aesthetics. We want
your room to "feel" right. As you enter a room,
you immediately see it -- the architecture, the interior
design, the construction details, the lighting. Next,
you hear it -- the sense of acoustic space, the reverberations,
the music playing. You may also smell it -- fresh-baked
cookies or new leather chairs. You may perceive its textures
-- wall surfaces, fabrics, flooring. Often, the non-visual
design considerations are overlooked. We help our clients
create a complete environment, one that pleases all the
senses.
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