Beautiful hardwood foors, 22-foot vaulted ceilings and a grand piano ... and how exactly do you want your electronics not to intrude on this elegance?
These homeowners wanted a clean look and a high-quality sound to their audio/video, which wasn’t exactly easy to do in their finely furnished family room, as installer Snap Audio & Video of Havelock, NC, can attest. And of course, they also wanted as big a plasma as they could get to place on their fireplace without doing any additional framing to it.
For the television, Snap gave them a 50-inch LG plasma that looks like it was made for the homeowners’ fireplace.
To optimize the sound and not compromise the wife’s wish to keep the decor pristine and not detract from that other music source in the area—the grand piano—Snap installed Jamo in-wall speakers for the rear surrounds and used Totem for the front. The husband settled on bookshelf models for the front right and left to fit snugly into the cabinetry around the fireplace. An easily movable Totem subwoofer completes the sound system.
To complement the decor, as well as provide functionality, Snap installed a lighting system for the living room as well as the entire home. Both the lighting and distributed audio can be navigated by the homeowners through their Control4 setup that includes a wireless touchscreen and mini full color touchscreen.

EQUIPMENT LIST

Display
• LG 50PC1DRA 50-inch plasma
• Peerless 850 slide-out mount

A/V Components
• Yamaha RX-V2500 receiver
• Yamaha DVD-S659 DVD player
• Control4 AVM-MC1-B media server
• Control4 AVM-16A2-B 16-channel distributed audio amplifer

Speakers
• Jamo 6.5K4 in-wall rear surrounds (2)
• Totem Rainmaker left, center, right surrounds
• Totem Storm subwoofer

Control
• Control4 system remote
• Control4 10.5-inch wireless touchscreen
• Control4 mini full color touchscreen

Lighting
• Control4 LDZ-101-W dimmers (6)
• Control4 LSZ-101-W switches (2)

Furniture, Acoustics & Accessories
• Middle Atlantic AXS pull-out rack
• Middle Atlantic power supply
• Ethereal interconnects
• Pro-Flex 16/4 bi-wire speaker wiring

SYSTEM DESIGN & INSTALLATION
Snap Audio & Video
Havelock, NC
252-626-7127
www.snapaudiovideo.com

SIDEBAR
Control 4 It All
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Dimmers, switches, and mini touchscreens by the doorway from whole-home control provider Control4 make for easy use of the lighting and distributed audio in this home. The homeowners can use their wireless touchscreen as well.