Chelsea Townhouse, London UK

This was something completely different from the rest of my installations.

Period townhouse in the heart of Chelsea, full of classic furniture and artwork.

Brief was to hide everything and blend it with period furniture.

A pair of freestanding Kef speakers are providing sound at the top floor living room / gallery.

Equipment rack is hidden under the stairs in the main hallway. Pull-out and swivel Middle Atlantic rack houses Imerge S3000 4 zone music server, Opus System 500MCU master unit and Opus VCU500 video switcher, Denon DVD player, Sky HD box and Philips RFX9600 Serial Extender.

                                                 Pull-out and swivel Middle Atlantic rack

In Master bedroom, there is a Panasonic 42" full HD Plasma screen on pull-out and swivel wall mount. Screen can be pull out and watched from anywhere in the bedroom. Master bedroom has its own Sony Blue Ray DVD player and another SKY HD box. Opus WCU600 touch panel and pair of

Kef Ci160 2QS speakers complete the room spec.

Plasma screen in the master bedroom is hidden inside a custom built wall cabinet.

Partition wall had to be reinforced to hold the Panasonic Plasma screen and wall mount.

Study was fitted with another Panasonic 42" full HD Plasma screen, mounted on motorized lift inside a lovely, custom built chest, that also houses top of the range Yamaha YSP-      sound projector, and also provides storage for large CD and DVD library.

 Yamaha YSP-40D sound projector is hidden behind a removable panel with brown acoustic cloth that matches interior. Same cloth is also hiding a pair of speakers built in to a massive wall to wall display cabinet / library. 

A pair of Kef Ci160 2QS speakers were built in to study's wall to wall display cabinet / library / chest, and covered with matching brown cloth, making them almost invisible.

  Throughout the house, a number of Opus WCU600 touch panels are used to choose music sources. 

Stainless steel face plates will be soon replaced with cooper plates to match even better with interior, as they were not available at the time of install.

Tower Bridge Warehose conversion

This was a very interesting project. Massive, open plan, warehouse conversion within walking distance of famous Tower Bridge.

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Masses of open space with audio distributed throughout the apartment, with 5.1 system in living room and stereo pairs at each bedroom, master bath / spa and shower room.

We designed and programmed lighting scenes using a number of Lutron Grafik Eye Integrale dimmers, installed and supplied all lighting fittings.

Philips TSU9600 with RFX9600 is used to control audio video and lighting.

UPDATE March 2016
We recently updated this system with a new Onkyo AV receiver, Sky HD+ box and
URC Complete Control MRX-2 network controller using a number of iPhones and iPads as remote controllers. Dead Lutron Grafik Eye controllers were replaced with Fibaro HC2 network home center controlling a bank of Fibaro dimmers and motion sensors (also controlled via iPhones & iPads)

Updated equipment

Panasonic 42" Plasma TV is mounted on Unicol plasma stand with castors, so that it can be turned in whatever position needed. This proved to be a great solution, as there were no space on any walls to mount it. When not in use, it can be pushed against the wall. For real cinema experience, it can be positioned at designated place in the middle of the room, for optimal viewing angle from sofa.

                  

                    Wall mounted, rear surround speakers are hidden behind venetian blinds

Main L/C/R speakers are KEF Ci200.3QT motorized speakers, residing over 3 meter long dining table.

So, when sitting at the dining table, they can fire down in "UP" position, and when watching a TV from a sofa, they come out and fire towards sofa in "DOWN" position. They are also set to audio sensing mode, so they come out as soon as there is audio played through

                                             KEF Ci200.3QT motorized speakers in action

KEF Ci200.3QT motorized speakers in action

                       

                       Massive custom built SPA bath is part of open plan master bedroom suite.

Audio, video as well as Lutron lighting is controlled by Philips TSU9600 remote controller, with personalized wall papers for each page.

A (large) number of remote controllers is ported to Philips TSU9600

Equipment includes 42" Panasonic plasma TV, Sony 5,1 AV Receiver, Sony 400 CD charger (!),

Sky box, Panasonic DVDR and hard disk recorder, Pioneer DVD player and MusicQ multiroom system. Various Kef Ci series speakers throughout.