ESSENTIAL CASE STUDY
PRESTIGE AUDIO DIGS DEEP AT SPRING PONDS Joe Carri, Commercial Director at Prestige Audio, provides the detail on this impressive project which recently picked up the Smart Building Award for ‘Best Home Cinema Over £50K’. The property is a new build that stands on the
way it performed. The Control4 smart home
sources regularly which include Sky Q, Apple TV
grounds of the client’s former residence. The
system is easy to use. It controls our heating,
and a Kaliedescape system. All of this is done
old house was demolished to make way for a
lighting, electric blinds, music, TVs and gate entry,
automatically at the video selection stage, via
four-bedroom family home spread across three
security cameras and outdoor music system.”
customised programming.
THE PROJECT DETAILS
projector preferred by the client, balancing
floors. The property is 850² meters including a double garage and basement. The basement
Joe explains, “A BenQ PCL50KH was the
For the cinema, a full demonstration session at
performance and budget. The projector was
area and a dedicated cinema. The ground floor
Pulse Cinemas gave Joe the chance to explore
also married to a Lumagen Video Processor
holds a kitchen with adjoining breakfast and
priorities and arrive at a plan that suited the
allowing for significantly faster switching
family room, a study and a media room. The
property. The cinema needed to be able to
between sources. It also allows for fine tuning
property also has landscaped grounds (6 acres)
showcase multi-channel, (Dolby Atmos 7.1.4)
and more accurate video calibration on colour
with a patio area where a NEAR exterior audio
but also stereo output and in cinema mode
contrast and is better for HDR too. We also had
system has been installed.
needed to have loud and punchy bass. Added
the BenQ ISF calibrated.”
has a wine tasting room, games room, utility
The customer says, “Now that we have
to the plan were some acoustic treatments and
The speakers were set out by Dolby
moved in, the results are impressive. Our cinema
a star-scape ceiling. Prestige carried out all of
laboratories recommendations apart from
is ‘epic’ and outperformed our expectations.
the works installing the stud work to house the
including two subwoofers, instead of one and
The result exceeded the performance of the
speakers and support the wall fabric as well as
doubling up on the side speakers.
demo systems we listened to. We use the
the acoustic treatments.
Joe explains, “We installed 2 x sides
cinema room regularly and love the space. We
The first part of the design was ensuring
speakers on both left- and right-hand walls (one
added another mini cinema in our living room
that all eight seats would have unrestricted
for each row). Additionally, the right-hand wall
with a motorised TV that disappears in the wall
views of the screen. This resulted in specifying
is further away from the listeners than the left,
when not in use.
a four-metre screen due to the available
because of the inclusion of a bar area, but we
“To top it all off, we added a state-of-the-art
space. The screen has automated masking as
had more than enough delay in the processor to
outdoor music system that surprised us by the
the clients likes to switch between different
accommodate this.”
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