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B&W and Intel on Tour Together

B&W the famed speaker manufacturer has recently went on tour with Intel to help promote the Intel powered Windows Home Server–a media solution for consumers. Intel has been a leader in promoting and developing media technology for consumers for at least ten years. They step up to the plate a bit and show that a good speaker can go along way to making your media more compelling and enjoyable. Below you will find a note on this from B&W followed by a couple of photos.

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Professional Display Calibration — Maximizing Your Investment and Big Screen Experience

(Parts of this article origially appeared in the Sencore Newsletter.)

Home theater enthusiasts expect the most from their big screen investment including the best possible picture images, the longest possible display life, and optimum energy efficiency. Professional display calibration can deliver these benefits.

Why Calibrate a Display? There are many factors that degrade the big screen viewing experience and influence how the big screen display looks and performs. Here are some examples.

• Factory display settings are established by marketing experts to attract buyers. These settings degrade the picture, shorten the display life and waste energy. Furthermore, improper settings can lead to viewing fatigue.
• The viewing environment greatly impacts the big screen viewing experience. Room lighting influences how our eyes perceive picture contrast and colors.
• Component aging within the display causes degradation in light output and often shifts color background or greyscale.

Display Calibration analyzes and treats these issues to bring out the BEST video images the display can offer. Professional Display Calibration delivers the following benefits to the consumer.

• Provides a sharper, more focused, film-like picture
• Brings out more visible detail in the darkest or lightest parts of the picture
•  Improves color accuracy for a lifelike color reproduction (flesh tones, grass, sky, and sports jerseys)
• Optimizes the display settings for room lighting and to reduce eye fatigue
• Expends the display’s useable life (up to 2x longer than factory settings)
• Reduces energy consumption by an average of 10-20%. (Go Green)

Allwired Technologies provides Professional ISF Certified Calibration to customers in Chattanooga, Nashville, Knoxville and North Georgia.

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Basic Acoustic Treatment for Your Home Theater

Treating a room to improve its acoustic properties is a combination of art and science, especially for the home acoustic engineer on a budget. Every room has different challenges, but if you’re building your podcasting studio or improving your home theater the same problems need to be solved. Sound transmission into and from the room needs to be reduced and the room’s acoustics are probably less than ideal.

“Acoustic isolation” is trying to reduce sound transmission out of the room. Improving internal acoustics is a matter of reducing sound reverberation. Completely eliminating reverb is not always desired. Even with today’s sound processing technology, concert halls are still designed to use natural reverberation to improve sound for live performances.

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Home Theater Speaker Setup - How to

One of the questions that are most asked by people who have just bought their first surround sound system, or have upgraded their aging home theater in a box (HTB) to a more robust system is “How do I setup my speakers for best performance?”

 

There is no quick answer and there are many theories and competing ideas. If you purchased your system from Allwired Technologies and also contracted us to install your system, you will not have to worry much with all the theory as we will properly setup your speakers for you.

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