Cool rack

On our latest install at Kensington High Street - space is at premium so our rack had to be mounted pretty high in a boiler room, joined by washing machine and a dryer! In order to have access to the back of it, we had to use this clever Sanus swing brackets & Sanus skeleton rack. Rack will hold about 50kg of gear including Rotel power amps, two Sonos Connect pres and various home network equipment.But first, I have to organize those cables hanging at the back!

Sanus rack - soon to be populated with some nice gear!

 Network & Wi-Fi, telephone, speaker, broadband and
TV (Virgin, Sky, Hot Bird, Freeview) cables...

French Job - part 3 (add ons)

It's been a while and we are back in sunny France for some additions to our award winning installation (ITSA 2014 Best International installation Award). 

To bring things u to date, we installed two Heos by Denon pre-amps / streamers/ One for the main house as an extra source and one in the big barn, connected to Arcam 8ch, power amp & 10 Kef outdoor speakers. It rocks!

We also replaced old Imerge S300 music server with Innuos Zen Mini MKII music server / ripper playing through modified Sonos Connect. We also hooked up PS4 in the main salon area and replaced old HDAnywhere HDMI matrix with new MHub2K 4x4.

Other additions were 11 (!) Nest Protect smoke detectors / fire alarms and two Dahua 4 mega pixels IP cameras - recording onto 12TB Qnap drive.

Innuos Zen Mini MKII 1TB server / ripper & Sonos Connect in action.

Dahua 4 MP IP CCTV in action!

Old NuVo Grand Concerto system still going strong!

 With a pair of Kef Ci200QR speakers to match!

Some of the very cool lighting fittings fitted in this property.

Bank of Nest Protect smoke / fire alarms are being set

Barn near Oxford

We are about to start a great project near Oxford. Huge barn with outbuildings - 8 zones of audio, 8 zones of 4K video, home network & Wi-Fi, Home cinema, Lutron smart lighting & automated shades - all integrated & controlled with Control4. First fix starting in a matter of days! more pix soon! 

High St Kensignton AV install - part 2 - Invisible speakers

We just completed an installation of 6 Nakymatone invisible speakers in this large living room with high ceilings. One more coat to go and they are ready for painting. Clients will enjoy amazing sound without a speaker in sight!

Hello Alexa!

We have a new addition to our ever growing collection of network gadgets! Looking forward to testing Amazon Echo integration with control systems. More info soon...

Home Cinema Choice September 2016 - CEDIA 2016 Winners

Check out September 2016 issue of Home Cinema Choice Magazine, with all CEDIA 2016 Winners (including our winning entry - Best Home Cinema under £40.000)

Hello Kensington!

Wiring completed for our new project - large high end apartment, just a stone throw from Kensington High Street. Lots of invisible speakers, 4 zones of audio & HD video; home network & Wi-Fi. More details soon...  

Hampstead AV installation - completed!

Finally, all done at Hampstead! 

B&O TV loaded with fresh PUC IR codes for Virgin TiVo box and box moved out of sight, using HDAnywhere HDMI over Cat6 extender. Last of the mighty Ruckus APs is installed outside and sending 160 mbps Wi Fi to every corner of the garden! New Apple TV and HDAnywhere receiver are mounted at the back of a TV and cables secured to allow for bracket movements.

 B&O TV floating in the air...

 Ruckus outdoor Wi Fi Access Point in action.

HDAnywhere HDMI over Cat6 extender, 

sending audio & video from rack room to the TV lounge.

 Home Network & Wi Fi rack

Domotz, Innuos, Nest...

Busy week, testing and setting up gear for next project abroad. 5 x Nest Smoke detectors, 3 Innuos Zen Mini MKII Music Servers, Domotz Pro, IP CCTV Cams etc..

Ripping dozens of newly bought CDs to ZEN MINI MKII server and then copying old client's music library to all three of them. Also testing Domotz Pro network monitoring software & hardware. We will be including this now on every installation.

 Domotz Pro's Raspberry Pi hardware on test.

 Domotz iPhone screenshot

3 x 1TB Innuos Zen Mini MKII Music Servers

Innuos - server menus

Another week - another award!

We just scooped a second award in less than a week!

Smart Building Awards 2016 - Best Cinema Project for our luxury cinema in Holland Park!

http://ce-pro.eu/article/smart-building-awards-announced-at-essential-install-live-south

CEDIA EMEA 2016 Awards Book entries

We are delighted to be featured in 2016 CEDIA Awards Book.

Winner - Best Home Cinema under £40,000 category

Woop! Woop! We have won!!

Woop! Woop! We have won CEDIA EMEA 2016 Award for Best Home Cinema under £40.000!

Official pictures to follow!
http://www.cediaawards.org/2016/07/WINNERS-OF-THE-CEDIA-AWARDS-2016-ARE-ANNOUCE 

Winner - Best Home Cinema under £40,000 category

CE-Pro Europe article

In the eve of CEDIA AWARDS 2016, CE-Pro Europe online, publishes an article on M.E.G.A. AV Underground Cinema project.

http://ce-pro.eu/article/m.e.g.a.-av-installations-2016-cedia-award-nominated-home-cinema

We are CEDIA Awards 2016 Finalists!

Very pleased to hear that we are shortlisted for CEDIA Awards 2016 in Best Cinema under £40,000 category. Woop! Woop! See you at the awards!
http://www.cediaawards.org/about/cedia-awards-2016-shortlist
http://www.insideci.co.uk/news/cedia-reveals-2016-cedia-guildhall-awards-shortlist.aspx 

Essential Install Magazine - 3 page case study!

Very pleased to see our last mega-cinema project featured in April 2016 issue of Essential Install Magazine! Cheers guys!

HDBaseT Installation

We are now officially HDBaseT experts!

Hampstead Home Network & Wi Fi - nearly there

 

Patchbay and wall sockets all terminated, Cisco 24 port switch in place, all patched up.  

Ruckus Zone Director 1200 and Drytek router are in place. 

Just waiting for Virgin guys to turn up with their fiber cable...

Home network rack

Ruckus ZoneFlex R710 WiFi Access Point

Hello Hampstead!

Second fix is about to start at what is going to be one of the most striking property interiors we worked in!

Lots of concrete - textured concrete walls, polished concrete floors, concrete sinks etc...but there will be some nice wood too and a lots of cool industrial fittings! Concrete walls and WiFi don't go hand in hand, so we went for the best. Ruckus top of the range stuff and and a lots of it! More pix soon.