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High-End Speakers, Hidden Audio, & Dolby Atmos for Home Theaters

SEE ALSO: The Best Home Theater Technology in 2021 Explore High-End Speakers and Dolby Atmos To make a home theater a true home theater, you need immersive, lifelike sound that brings viewers right into the action. We recommend high-fidelity speaker brands like Origin Acoustics, Harman, and Focal for the best audio quality. What makes a speaker “h
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What Kind of Screen Should I Use in My Home Movie Theater?

SEE ALSO: Tips to Craft the Perfect Home Movie Theater Long-Throw Projector & Screen Pros: Most people are familiar with long-throw projectors hung from the ceiling or mounted at the back of the room, projecting onto a fixed or motorized screen. These projectors feel “classic” to home theaters and are a popular pick for the traditional install
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All in the Details: Project Spotlight on a Florida Home Theater Installation

SEE ALSO: What Kind of Screen Should I Use In My Home Movie Theater? A Luxury Home Theater from the Ground Up This was an all-new construction in Fort Lauderdale, and our team was brought in to create a luxurious, modern home theater. The house was still being constructed with unfinished walls, and we started by running network wiring for where AV
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5 Days of Festivities: Celebrating 20 Years as a Smart Home Company

SEE ALSO: Looking Back: 20 Years in Business as an Award-Winning AV Company November 15th: Happy Hour with Bomar Builders We hosted our longtime building partners, Bomar Builders, at the Funky Buddha craft brewery. About 30 members from both our teams met for a happy hour and enjoyed a night of drinks, bites, and celebration. November 18th: Operat
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Audio-Video Guide to Host the Best Super Bowl Ever

SEE ALSO: High-End Audio for the Big Game: Surround Sound & Multi-Room Speakers Nothing Beats Surround Sound You’ll feel like you’re right there in the stadium when the game is connected to surround sound. With a center channel speaker, left and right speakers, and a subwoofer, your party will be immersed in action and excitement. But owning a
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Take the Super Bowl to the Patio with Outdoor Entertainment

SEE ALSO: Compelling Reasons to Enhance Your Outdoor Entertainment Experience   Séura Outdoor TVs Outdoor televisions not only need to be resistant to water and extreme temperatures, but they need to be bright enough to see clearly in the sun. Have you ever looked at your phone at the beach? Then you know most screens are simply not bright en
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A Lighting Design Is Worth the Home Investment

SEE ALSO: Before & After: See How We Prewire for Smart Lighting & Invisible Speakers What Is a Lighting Design?  A lighting design goes beyond where we physically install lights. Lighting design is about the human experience—how different layers of light in various brightness and colors can influence an interior’s atmosphere.&nbs
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DID Series by DMF: Downlights Built for Smart Lighting Integration

SEE ALSO: A Lighting Design Is Worth the Home Investment About DMF Lighting DMF Lighting designs and manufactures recessed lighting products that offer ultimate customization. The modular products allow lights to adapt to changing room designs and the lights themselves beam smooth dimming with color accuracy. Plus, the products’ trims are made fro
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What Is Human-Centric Lighting?

SEE ALSO: A Lighting Design Is Worth the Home Investment What Is Human-Centric Lighting? Ketra describes its smart lighting products as ‘human-centric.’ You may be wondering what that means. Well, our internal clocks—the circadian rhythm—remind us when to feel sleepy, alert, and even hungry. But our inner clock can be thrown off by unpredictable l
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5 Things to Know Before Installing Outdoor Lighting

SEE ALSO: Perfectly Blend Outdoor Entertainment Into Your Landscaping Design You’ll Find Newfound Pride in Your Home When you see your house illuminated at the perfect angles, you’ll fall in love with it all over again. Your home will never look dark and spooky after returning late at night. Instead, you’ll be welcomed by beautiful lights that mak
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4 Tips to Make Your Outdoor Audio Sound Better

SEE ALSO: Perfectly Blend Outdoor Entertainment into Your Landscaping Design 1. Add More Speakers to Fill Gaps  Without walls for sound waves to bounce off, your speakers will lose sound frequencies in an open space. Because you aren’t enclosed in a room, audio may sound quiet, washed out, and you may miss some audio details.  So, what d
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Different Types of Outdoor TVs: Which Is Best for Your Home?

SEE ALSO: Perfectly Blend Outdoor Entertainment Into Your Landscaping Design Full-Sunlight TVs If you’ve ever looked at your phone at the beach, you know that screens and sunlight usually don’t mix. That is—sunlight and dim screens don’t work well. Full-sun outdoor TVs are built bright enough to be seen clearly, even if you’re standing in the midd
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Hidden Technology: How to Stylishly Hide Equipment Behind Your TV

SEE ALSO: What Kind of Screen Should I Use In My Home Movie Theater? In-Wall Behind TV Storage One of our trusted partners, Future Automation, builds solid steel boxes that are installed within walls and behind displays. Inside the steel wall boxes, we can store power supply wiring and cable boxes so that all you see is the TV mounted completely f
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How Does Hidden & Invisible Audio Work?

SEE ALSO: Improve Your Interior Design with Hidden Audio/Video How We Install Hidden Audio To connect in-wall speakers and subwoofers to an amplifier, we need to run wires through the walls first. As an AV system designer, we’ll create a wiring map to plot where speakers, cables, and volume controls will go in each room. Inside the walls, we insta
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7 Ways to Use a Building Automation System for Your Business

SEE ALSO: Equestrian Access Control: Manage Who Comes & Goes from the Property 1. Smart Lighting  See your business in an all-new light! Automation systems grant total control over lighting—and not just when the lights turn on but how they appear, too. For example, we can program the system to start lights bright and cool during the day,
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How to Add Motorized Shades to Your Lutron Lighting System

SEE ALSO: Live a Brighter, Better Life with Lutron Lighting Control How to Add Shades to Lutron Systems  Lutron offers three types of home lighting control systems: Caséta, RadioRA, and HomeWorks. Here’s how each works with shading.  Caséta  Caséta is Lutron’s battery-operated single-room controller. Caséta offers fewer options than
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Keep Bugs & Glare Out with Outdoor Motorized Shades

SEE ALSO: 5 Things to Know Before Installing Outdoor Lighting How Outdoor Motorized Shades Work  Ready to keep bugs out? We install motorized sun shades and insect screens and connect them to a battery or wired power source. From there, you’ll wirelessly control your outdoor shades via remote, app, or even wall keypad. We can integr
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Smart Control Applies to Marine Lighting, Too

SEE ALSO: A Lighting Brand We Love: DMF Lighting  Above-Water LEDs Beyond navigational lights and floodlights, you can create a welcoming ambiance in your boat with a variety of above-water LED lights. Overhead downlights fill the space with any color or shade of white, setting the mood for relaxation or get-togethers. Courtesy lights il
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Smart Home at Sea: Discover the Possibilities in Marine Automation

SEE ALSO: Keep Bugs & Glare Out with Outdoor Motorized Shades  One System for Simple Control  With a Control4 system, you can intelligently manage your boat just as intuitively as you would in a smart home. You won’t need to fiddle with several remotes or different apps to change the lights or play music. It’s all under one umbrella,
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Lutron: The Next Generation of Recessed Lighting

SEE ALSO: What Is Human-Centric Lighting? Lutron Intelligent Lights These aren’t your typical light bulbs. Lutron offers two lines of intelligent lighting fixtures, Ivalo and Ketra. Ivalo is its entry-level lighting portfolio that is more simplistic than Ketra, but like Ketra, its lights offer 0.1 percent dimming, soft power-on, and fade-to-black.
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