Master Bedroom
Even with the complication of a vaulted ceiling an audio and video multiroom system can be discreetly installed with sufficient planning.
Living Room - Lighting Control
Throughout the dwelling Lutron keypads are located where you expect conventional light switches. These keypads allow selection of a lighting scene, or control of any light in the house. Once decided custom etched faceplates are supplied with legends describing each buttons function.
Technical Room - Lighting
Three Lutron lighting panels are set flush into one wall. Two tall 19" Middle ATlantic racks house the audio equipment.
Master Bedroom - Audio
A pair of Meridian In-Ceiling speakers provide the sound for music and for the Loewe TV
Living Room - Control
An AMX Modero MVP8400 allows selection of any CD stored in the Imerge Music Server located in the Technical Room
Living Room - Telephones
Late in the day, but we had installed sufficient cabling for us to be able to supply and install a Panasonic telephone system a little 'late in the day'. Wireless DECT telephones get good coverage throughot the home as they can link to the strongest cell strategically placed throughut. The gate entry stsyem links to all the phones, so anyone in the house can hear if a guest has arrived. A simple button push on the phone opens the gates.
Gymnasium
In-Ceiling speakers and a subwoofer can get the tunes thumping for Aerobic sessions. All the stored music can simply be selected from the AMX in-wall 5" touchpanel.
Gymnasium - TV
A cleverly placed Loewe TV, set across the corner using an adjustable Future Automation bracket
Kitchen - Lighting
Lutron keypads throughut allow the extensive lighting system to be precisely adjust to set in mood.
Bathroom
As the Lutron keypads run on 12 Volts they can even be installed in 'wet rooms' so you have complete control of the lighting from inside the room.
Family Room
A giant 60" Pioneer plasma with attached speakers oesn't impose in the room. A well designed system can offer great performance and doesn't have to be unsightly. There's no cables on show here!
Grand Staircase
Well designed lighting with precise control from the Lutron System makes the best of the architectural features of the home.
Hallway
The entrance to the Dining Room which has a pair of ceiling speakers installed in its vaulted ceiling.
Hallway - Lighting
A Lutron keypad with customised finish and bespoke etched legends on its buttons allows selelction of lighting scenes throughout the home.
Master Bedroom - TV
A Loewe TV on an electricalls operated Future Automation bracket automatically angles down from the ceiling when required to allow a perfect viwing angle. Retracting flush to the ceileing when not in use.
Lounge - Touchpanel
The AMX Modero MVP8400 shown here sat on its table-top docking station. The wireless touchpanel is completely portable using Wi-Fi to connect to the equipment in the Technical Room. It offers complete control of the system with feedback onto its screen of current volume and track information.
Lounge - Surround Sound
A discrete surround sound installation. JM Lab in-ceiling loudspeakers are shallow enough to fit into the beamed ceiling. An Arcam AVR350 surround processor is hidden away in the Technical Room. Definitive Technology Mythos centre speaker and the Pioneer 50" plasma are the only components on show. Full HD pictures available from Blu-Ray and three Sky HD boxes, fully controlled from the AMX touchpanel.
Living Room - Loudspeakers
The ATC SCM40 floor-standing loudspeakers offer superb performance from an elegant cabinet. Powered from a Meridian G57 power amplifier hidden discreretly away in the technical room.
Technical Room - Meridian G57
A Meridian G57 power amplifier rackmounted into a custom made Middle Atlantic 19" rack shelf. This powers the ATC SCM40 loudspeakers in the Living Room.
Games Room
Well it will be a games room once the pool table has been delivered!
Games Room
A Pioneer 50" Plasma and Definitive Technology speaker with surround from in-ceiling speakers for some additional entertainment which you enjoy a game of Pool.
Cinema - Projector
The Meridian MF10 projector offers true 1080P high definition pictures. Hidden neatly behind the main ceiling beam.
Kitchen
An AMX Mio R4 Remote shown here docked into its charger. The R4 allows selection and control of an audio or video source and automatically turns the Loewe TV to the correct channel if required. Sky channels and prcise CD track can be selected from its small but usable touchscreen.
Cinema
A Draper 10 foot wide electrically retractable projection screen offers the true Cinema viwing experience, A Meridian MF10 projector providing the true 1080P High Definition picture. Discrete speakers again were the requirement and disappear into the beamed ceiling. All unsightly sources and amplification hidden away in the Technical Room
12 - Tudor Oak
Overview:
A newly built oak frame house in a tudor style, Audio Images were involved from initial build to the current maintainence of this project.
Brief:
Originally contacted by a local Electrical Contractor with a view to us supplying and comissioning a Lutron Homeworks Lighting system which they would install.
On our initial meeting with the client, it became clear that a complete multiroom system and home control was required.
Design:
We worked closely with the Electrical contractors and client to arrive at a comprehensive, but not too extravagant lighting design.
The client's requirements for a Cinema, Music room, and other televisions througout the home to be easily controlled, but extremely flexible in their capabilities were paramount.
We were able to subtly alter the room plan to provide us with a 'technical room' which housed the heart of the systems.
Lighting panels were built into the walls, and two floor to ceiling 19" racks housed the Sky boxes, CD server, amplifiers and control systems.
Installation:
We carried out all the first fix, final installation and comissioning of the distributed audio and video system, and liased with the main Electrical Contractors on the Lutron installation and its interfacing to the AMX control systems.
Growth:
As always with these projects we endevour to make the clients fully aware of all the possabilities before the walls have been plastered and it's too late!
As the first fix progressed the project grew with the installation of a comprehensive cabled and wireless network using several wi-fi access oints to give good coverage througout the home, an integrated telephone system with access to the gate entry system.
CCTV cameras can be brought up onto any television in the house.
After Sales:
We have in place a simple service contract, so that on six monthly visits we can ensure the system is always working to its maximum potential, and that all the systems firmware is current and running optimally.
Simple changes requested by the client for lighting scenes can be undertaken remotely from our offices over the remote VPN system.