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Make Outdoor Entertainment More Fun!

Parties are Better with an Outdoor TV and Speakers!
With warm weather right around the corner, what can you do to “up” your backyard audio video game? Outdoor TV’s and speakers! These TV’s bring a whole new life to your outdoor space! Not only can they stay outside and brave the elements during both summer and winter, but they can be in direct sunlight with no distortion of the picture. This is something a regular indoor TV cannot do (as much as we want it to!). With a waterproof compartment for the cable connections, these TV’s can stay outside for years. Watch your favorite media while relaxing outside. How can it get any better?
Outdoor Speakers!
Have your favorite music play while working, or entertaining outside! Whether it’s background music or some serious listening, outdoor speakers can be a good compliment to an outdoor TV, or just by themselves! There are several different ways to go about this, ranging from on-home speakers to landscape speakers that seemingly disappear.  Whether it’s upgrading an existing system or a brand new one, call us today for a free consultation!

Multi-Room Audio! (Not Just Sonos)

Multi-Room audio is changing the way we listen to music. It’s never been easier to control what you’re listening to from smart devices most of us have today. Streaming services such as Pandora, Spotify, SiriusXM radio and many more are giving listeners an almost endless amount of music right at their fingertips. TuneIn radio gives you local, national and even international FM/AM radio stations. No static, no white noise, clean clear digital radio. To achieve multi-room audio, there, of course, must be a speaker(s) in the room. There are a few ways to go about it. If you’re framing your house, running speaker wire and other types of A/V wires to have in-wall or in-ceiling speakers, it’s your best bet. If your house is already sheetrocked, our professional installation team will guide wires inside the wall with minimal to no mess. In-wall and In-ceiling speakers’ grill can be painted to match the décor of your room, no wires to be seen. Driven by an amp controlled by a streamer (in which there are many, see below), they can sound as good as the traditional box style speaker and can be used for a complete surround sound system.

The alternate root is to have a plug-in, networked speaker(s) throughout your house. But there is a caveat. These types of speakers still require power to operate, and really are not aesthetically appealing. That said, they can be used in the right situation. There are many Wi-Fi and networked streamers out there, such as Sonos, BluSound, Heo’s and Play-Fi just to name a few. Each has its own sound, operation, and compatibility. Some can support High-Resolution audio with accurate reproduction; some can be used as background music with good sound quality. They all operate from your Wi-Fi system, which vastly increases the amount of data instead of being sent by Bluetooth, giving you much richer sound. There are usually different sizes of networked speakers, some for smaller rooms, some for serious listening. You can group them together, or separately and play music in one room or speaker, and play something completely different giving you great flexibility. You have complete control of your audio, with ease.

So there it is, a brief insight into home audio.

It’s changing the way we live!

 

What’s the Deal with 4K?

The topic I want to discuss today is probably the most basic of all the questions out there; what is 4K? First, 4K and UHD are synonymous. There is no difference between the two as they mean the same thing! 4K or UHD (Ultra High Definition) refers to how many vertical and horizontal lines or “rows” of pixels a TV has. A pixel is a small dot on the front panel of the television that together with the other pixels, make up the image on the screen. The more tightly packed the pixels are, the greater the resolution. A 4K TV typically has 3840(vertical lines of resolution) x 2160(horizontal lines of resolution). This gives you a little over 8 million effective pixels on a 4K TV. Obviously this number changes based on the size of your TV, but the proportions and ratios are always consistent; the pixels per square inch will never change. In comparison, the “Full HD” or 1080 resolution was the highest TV resolution available to the consumer just a few yeas ago. That TV had 1920(vertical lines of resolution) x 1080(horizontal lines of resolution). This totals a little over 2 million pixels. A Full High Definition TV has 2 million pixels, the Ultra High Definition has 8 millions pixels. Eight divided by two… 4! 4K was born and has been taking the world by storm ever since.