Home Cinema Choice mag feature - November 2014

Happy to see our last installation featured in acclaimed Home Cinema Choice magazine!

Thanks guys!

French touch-ups!

Last bits of Hi-Fi kit are delivered and installed. Magnificent Kawero! speakers and Brinkmann Bardo turntable are finally paired with Conrad Johnson pre-amps and David Berning valve mono blocks. All connected with Audience interconnect and power cables. Bliss!

In the background - massive 4m x 2m (150") Screen Excellence Enlightor 4K acoustically transparent projection screen with Sonance Cinema Series LCR2 speakers and 2 x 12" Sub woofers hidden behind it.

For more info about this project and full equipment list check SVI Magazine's case study article link.

SVI Case Study 

Fully completed cinema room / listening room

Vine cellar is also completed and boasting a pair of Kef Ci200QR's with dedicated 

NuVo LED touch panel

Half a dozen of various remotes in main house are replaced with URC MRX5000i touch screen Network remote

Latest NuVo Music Port Elite firmware installed...

Second Dreambox HD800 sattellite receiver installed in main house rack and plugged into

HDAnywhere 4x4 Multi Room HDMI over Cat5 Matrix

Time to get dirty in Kensington!

Wiring completed on top three floors and first batch of invisible - plaster over speakers are going in!

Building work is getting completed at lightening speed!

Two pairs of invisible / plaster over speakers for formal living & dining area ready to be skimmed.

Top floor rooms nearly completed!

Underground home theatre - the beginning.

Just a week later platforms for cinema seating are ready! 

Room is slowly shrinking in size. 

After a while, cinema shell is done and walls are up. Two massive air-con units are in place. Next step - building platforms for seating and sound insulation. Room is massive, but it will lose 60 cm on each wall for insulation and acoustic treatments. 

 Entrance to the left and back wall with projector opening (still to be cut through)

Looking down to screen wall from top tier level. Yes, that is a workman down there...room is huge at the moment!!

AV in traditional and classic interiors

A small collage of our AV installations in "old school" interiors. We do not always get to work in cutting edge contemporary apartments and houses, where everything is newly-built from ground up. AV installations in old (and listed) buildings are always a challenge. From running cables to blending technology with period furniture and features. Somehow, it all works out nicely at the end!

What is not visible in these pictures is vast amount of technology hidden away and cleverly integrated into interiors. Invisible (plaster over) speakers, motorized TV lifts that rise out of custom made chests, speakers hidden behind color matched acoustic fabric in bespoke display cabinets and library shelves, stacks of equipment on pull out racks, motorized curtains, programmable lighting, touch screen wall panels and WiFi remote controllers!

Luxury cinema seating

We are happy to announce that we can now supply Cineak's amazing range of luxury cinema seating.

Highly customizable with endless range of optional extras. Cineak web here.

Screen Excellence

We just had our last installation in France featured on Screen Excellence web site. We used massive 150" Enlightor 4K acoustically transparent screen. Screen Excellence  website here.

Here we go again - underground Media Room - the beginning !

Finally, it's all going off! While we just started wiring for whole-house AV, cinema room is being dug up! It's hard to imagine that in less than six months we will be watching movies in here!
This is the smaller room, of the two we have on the go at the moment...more pix soon!

Case study feature in SVI Magazine

We are all very pleased to have our recent "French Job" featured in Case Study section of SVI Magazine! (Sound Vision Install) download magazine 

Big shout to SVI crew!

Essential Install Awards

Another great day out! This time at Institute of Directors @ Pall Mall, with Daniel Sait (Essential Install Magazine Editor in Chief) and number of industry figures and installers as a member of judging panel for 2014 Essential Install Trade Awards. Good discussion and nice to meet some new faces! See you all again at the Awards on 11th of June.

Essential Install Trade Awards web link here

Anthem AVS day out!

Great day out with Anthem AVS crew and Anthony Grimani from MSR Acoustics !
Talking cinema design and room acoustics and checking out awesome ARC room correction software from Anthem. Very cool !
And we all got to see limited edition (30 only made)  SIM2 Fuoriserie £80,000 projector in action !!

French chateau - finished !

It's been a while (over year and a half) and it is finally completed!

Everything is in place, thoroughly tested and used over the last six months. 14 zones of audio and 4 zones of HD video distributed throughout the house; dedicated home cinema with 150" projection screen; vine cellar and a massive function room / barn with enough speakers for serious party! High speed home network handling audio, video, data and Wi Fi throughout the house and massive, one acre garden. All technology is seamlessly integrated with interiors,with massive AV racks hidden in utility rooms. 

If sound and picture are not enough to blow visitors socks off, Nicole Masset's wacky interiors will definitely do the job! 

For more technical info and work in progress pictures, please check older posts

 Salon / Media room

  65" Plasma screen on pull out and swivel brackets in Media Room

 Programmable LED lighting 

Custom made AV wall with 65" reference plasma screen

and sound projector hidden behind acoustic cloth.

Huge salon / TV room

 NuVo OLED touch panels

Kitchen area

All bedrooms have access to huge music library and tens of thousands of 

internet radio stations.

Function room / barn

Vine tasting area in vine cellar

 150" Screen Excellence Enlightor projection screen in cinema room

Shabby chic cinema room

AV Racks side by side:
Main house AV & Network rack on the left
and Cinema & Hi Fi rack on the right.

Cinema room AV rack from behind

WyreStorm Enado remote control

Just spent a day with Wyrestorm / Habitech crew on Enado training day. Great UI (user interface) and it runs on just about anything ! From iPhone / iPad to Laptop and from iOS to Windows to Android.

Looking forward to integrating one of those later in the year.

 Screenshot - Sky+HD page, work in progress

New projects news!

We are excited to announce two new projects confirmed!

Large 70 sqm, purpose built underground cinema with 4K projector and seating for 12 people in Holland Park, London.
Expect classic look with lots of wood carvings and exotic colors!

Second project is whole house AV with underground media room / cinema room in Grade II listed building in Kensington. Expect cutting edge contemporary look with lots of clever details!

Planning is under way, first pictures to follow soon!

Also, coming soon - another two page feature in leading AV industry magazine.