If you love music, and really enjoy discovering new music, you’ll be just like me and love Pandora. So, what is Pandora? First of all, it’s a streaming music service. With streaming music, you do not have to own the music. It comes in from the great cloud called the internet. The internet is in …
Read MoreLeon’s CEDIA Expo 2010 Tradeshow Review
The crew at Audio Advice is back from another CEDIA Expo tradeshow. We’re tired, with sore feet, but it was sure worth it to see all of the cool toys coming out over the next year. Some of us arrived on Wednesday for meetings and classes, while the rest of our team came in on …
Read MoreAudio Advice at the Raleigh/Wake County Parade of Homes
Audio Advice participation in this year’s Raleigh/Wake County Parade of Homes features an affordable flat-screen surround system at a home from Upright Builders, Inc. (pictured above) at 240 Michelangelo Way in Cary. This year’s Parade is being held, as usual, on the first 3 weekends of October. You may visit on Oct. 2nd and 3rd, …
Read MoreThe latest in personalized home security automation
Most of us think of a security system as something we arm when leaving home or going to bed at night, giving us peace of mind and acting as a deterrent to intruders. Did you know today’s technology can let your existing security infrastructure give you much more? Imagine your kids come home from school …
Read MoreA new product addition: Sonos Music System
Audio Advice has added Sonos Multi-Room Music System to our lineup of home entertainment options. I have to say, it’s pretty darn cool. Their concept has your music coming from either your computer or the internet. Sonos systems can play back music files from your computer, let you hear thousands of different internet radio stations, …
Read MoreHome Tech Planning Guide available at Audio Advice
As you’ve undoubtedly noticed, there are lots of new products and technologies available in the world of home entertainment and automation. In many construction trades, most of the people involved are unfamiliar with these audio. video, and automation products, and with the range of technologies outside of their areas of expertise. Home Theater Specialists of …
Read MoreI Forgot How Great It Was To Have Lighting Control!
First, let me give you a little information about lighting control systems: there have always been two technologies. The original way (which still works really well for new construction) is to have dimmers, or remote dimmers, hard wired to a control processor. This is difficult to do in an existing home: you need to retro …
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