Home cinema and smart home showroom, Manchester
Everything we install, working, in one building on King Street. Sit in a 9.4.4 cinema, hear a plaster-in speaker you cannot see, press the keypads and watch four media walls at four different budgets.
Nothing is on a shelf and nothing is a mock-up. It is the easiest hour you will spend deciding what your house actually needs, and it costs nothing.
Have a look round first.
Photographed as it stands, with everything running. It is a working room, not a set.
Eight things you can hear, see and press.
Demonstrations run on the real platforms, programmed the way we would programme yours. Ask to be shown the back of the rack as well.
A 9.4.4 Artcoustic cinema room
Nine channels at ear level, four subwoofers and four in the ceiling, all Artcoustic. Sit in the middle seat and ask us to run something loud.
Ceiling speakers and invisible speakers
Multi-room audio through in-ceiling speakers, next to plaster-in speakers that disappear into the wall. Same track, both ways, so you can hear what you gain and what you give up.
Four bespoke media walls
Four walls built to four different levels of performance and budget, from a tidy TV and soundbar arrangement up to a full cabinetry build with proper loudspeakers behind the finish.
Control4 smart home
A working Control4 system: keypads, touch panels, the app, and the automations that run without anyone touching anything. Programmed the way we programme a house.
Basalte smart home
Basalte switches and touch panels on the same building, so you can compare how two control languages feel under your thumb before you commit a whole house to one.
KNX and Lutron lighting control
Two lighting platforms running side by side. We will set a scene with you, at the brightness you would actually want it, and show you what happens when a bulb needs changing.
Lutron electronic blinds
Lutron blinds on the windows, so you can hear how quiet a good motor is and see how the fabric sits when the blind is halfway down.
Orluna lighting
Orluna fittings in the ceilings throughout. Worth ten minutes on its own: the difference a properly specified downlight makes is the thing most people notice last and regret first.
In the middle of town.
Manchester
M2 4LQ
Ring or send an enquiry and we will put an hour aside, with the cinema warmed up and the lighting scenes ready.
01254 917310