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Whole Home Audio Video Distribution

March 2nd, 2009

There are many ways to distribute audio and video around your home – from cheap Cat5e based systems with little amps built in to the keypad at each room to centralised systems with huge amplifiers.

At Custom Controls our approach is flexibility, if you want to distribute it you can, if you want to control it you can and if you want to add in home automation you can. We don’t believe small room amps give a very good return on investment – an amp fitted in to a back box behind a keypad can not be big enough to drive a pair of speakers properly. Granted in most rooms sound quality is not as important as the aesthetics – speakers should be practically invisible and the control panel should either be invisible or look part of the room – regardless of the aesthetics though it should sound good!

Why go to the hassle and expensive of installing something with sounds worse than a £100 radio? Our systems give top quality audio throughout the home and, with the introduction of Class D amplifiers, the huge amplifier running in a central hub is quite slim and runs cool!

The moral of the story is to try and think of how you might want to expand your whole home system in the future – will the system cater to your wildest desires? – and audition controllers and sound quality thoroughly.

Custom Controls are a premier dealer of Crestron Whole House Audio Video systems and Bowers and Wilkins Loudspeakers.

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