Great Gear Only Sounds as Good as the Room It's In

Acoustic treatments sound like something only recording studios need, until you notice your new speakers still sound thin, boomy, or hard to follow during dialogue. You spent real money getting the equipment right, so why does the room seem to be working against you? 

Speakers only reproduce sound. They do not control what happens to that sound once it leaves the cabinet. Untreated walls, ceilings, and corners in your Cincinnati, OH, home bounce, delay, and pile up sound waves before they ever reach your ears. If you have upgraded your audio components and still are not hearing what you paid for, look at the room before you blame the speakers.

What smart home technology means for your Cincinnati home

Smart gadgets are everywhere. Video doorbells, voice speakers, app-controlled thermostats, each one promising to make life easier. Most Cincinnati, OH, homeowners end up instead with a phone full of separate apps that don’t communicate with each other. That's a stack of devices, not a smart home. 

A real smart home is one that brings all your devices together under a professionally programmed platform. Security, entertainment, and comfort work together and can be managed from one central location. The payoff isn't just fewer apps cluttering your phone. It's a home that responds instantly to your command. 

How Home Power Backup Keeps a Dayton Smart Home Running

The lights flicker, then go out. For most households, that's the start of a long wait for your essentials to come back. But if you've invested in home power backup for your Dayton, OH, home, it's actually just the start of a very short, very busy window. The short gap between the grid failing and your generator or backup battery system picking up the load. What happens in that window says a lot about whether your smart home was built to handle an outage or just survive one.

It’s Time To Consolidate All Your Technology With Smart Home Control 

Smart home devices all over the market promise greater security, peace of mind, efficiency, and entertainment. Can they deliver on their promises? A home is only as good as the sum of its parts, and it’ll only work great when all these devices communicate with each other. Home automation platforms like Control4 bring all your technology together. 

As you go about your day, you have smart home control at your fingertips. Or at the tone of your voice, if voice commands are more up your alley. With a single command, you control multiple systems for greater ease of use and performance. Find out how we help our clients throughout Cincinnati, OH, have better living environments. 

Just Wait Until the Screen Comes Down

Most homeowners picture the same trade-off when a media room comes up. Give up a living space, and settle for dark walls and equipment nobody wants to look at.

Picture something different instead. A living room looks exactly like a living room, with no equipment in sight, until someone taps a button and a screen lowers from the ceiling. The lights dim and sound fills the room from speakers nobody noticed were there.

That is what a custom media room looks like, and it has little in common with the picture in your head. Beacon Audio Video Systems designs spaces like these for homeowners across Cincinnati, OH. We know technology is only half of what matters. The rest comes down to making sure it disappears into the room until the moment it is needed.