ESSENTIAL CASE STUDY
WONDERFUL WILTSHIRE SMART HOME Andy Jack, co-founder and director of TwentyTwo Integration, gives EI the inside track on this impressive and award-winning project. Starting with the impressive and very stylish
chip LASER DLP was made with seconds of
fashion by first providing power to signal
home cinema, Andy explains, “Given a
a Blu-ray starting! The projector was installed
processing equipment, and then providing
complete blank canvas and shell of room within
outside of the room, firing through a porthole.
power to the amplifiers.
the basement we were able to take complete
This maintained the visually aesthetic and
“When shutting down the AV system, the
control over the finished cinema and we were
eliminated noise interference within the room.”
sequencer turns off the system in the reverse order
able to introduce HTE our acoustic treatment
Andy explains that for this home cinema a
therefore minimising potential complications
partner to the interior designer on the project
Digital Projection projector was paired with a
and equipment damage in the rack and equally
to agree the colour scheme and furniture for
Lumagen Radiance Pro Series 4K UHD scaler
importantly avoid damaging the speakers due to
the room, this has then allowed the room to be
to provide reference level video and colour
the signal processors being powered off while the
acoustically designed without compromising
performance once it had been ISF calibrated.
audio power amplifiers are still running. Describe
either the aesthetics or where the acoustic treatments are placed. “We knew the client wanted a reference Dolby Atmos experience, so a 7.1.4 speaker
To give the real home cinema movie
the acoustical considerations.”
watching experience a constant height, a
Power of course needs control, so the
variable width screen from Screen Excellence
acoustics of the home cinema of course needed
was also specified.
to be right, but not at the cost of the design
solution was designed the system around
Protecting the home cinema equipment
Wisdom Line and Point Source speakers for
and promoting consistent high-performance
the best performance for clarity, dynamics
was
also paramount, as Andy says, “We
performance Andy says, “We included acoustic
and consistent sensory experience and we
ensured correct power management by utilising
wall panels that form the main design of the
built our own backboxes to house the in-wall
intelligent
products.
room. Aesthetically all the panels look the
loudspeakers and subwoofers.
We installed an AC power sequencer which
same, but behind the luxurious fabric, each
For the best in video we demonstrated
provided AC power to outlet groups one at
panel is hand crafted employing a wide range
single-chip DLP and three-chip LASER DLP
a time. This allowed us to ensure equipment
of thicknesses, slots and holes. The complete
projection to the client and the up sale to three-
would be powered up and down in an orderly
acoustic panel system is cleverly mounted on a
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power
management
vision for the room. This swish cinema matches style and high-
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