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IMPROVEMENTS AND ADDITIONS TO THE CEDIA DESIGNER CREATE EVEN MORE VALUE One of CEDIA’s most valuable benefits — accessible for free if you’re a member — has gotten better, explains Dan McGowan, CEDIA Public Relations Specialist. The big picture features of the powerful CEDIA Designer (TCD) software — particularly, the time and money savings — are highly valuable, but it’s everything else packed inside that really makes it worth your while. Add a kaizenesque dedication to making the programme better and more relevant to home integration professionals, and The CEDIA Designer could become an indispensable tool for business. TCD creator, Guy Singleton, says the home cinema and media room design software was developed out of necessity — combining a
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myriad of spreadsheets, calculators, and other measurement implements to not only save time, but save the need to tie up three or four colleagues to lend their expertise on proper and precise documentation. In addition to developments like virtual, 3D renders, an ever-growing array of exceptional brands and high-quality CAD drawings, Guy draws on a racing performance analogy to illustrate what’s recently come down the pike for TCD, which CEDIA members can access for no charge. “I always refer to this as a supercharger or a turbocharger that’s going to bolt onto our big block engine,” he said during a recent edition of the CEDIA Podcast. “You know, we already had something that was great, but now we’re just going to give it a few more horsepower, we’re going to make it a little more flexible.” Whether already available or in the pipeline, Guy offers detail on a slate of features that show
how TCD’s muscle is in the details. As is the case with so many features in TCD, they’re built with the future in mind and will play nicely with any new industry standards that come down the line.
AMPLIFICATION REQUIREMENTS ARE DIFFICULT - BUT TCD IS HERE TO HELP
Determining just the right amount of amplification needed for the room is a headache that doesn’t necessarily need to be. TCD has a new way of dealing with tweaks to this part of your project. “You may well say: I’m sitting this far away from the screen. I would like to hit a (sound pressure level) of ‘X,’ but to do that, I need a speaker that is this efficient and an amplifier that has got this much power delivery into the speaker,” says Guy. “So, there’s a little
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