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Essential Install | Habitech The Complete Cinema Design Service Habitech’s ultra-wide range of products, service and support is all you need to create immersive home cinema in every room. MD Jonathan Pengilley presents… JVC's astonishing DLA-Z1 laser projector promises an unmatched realism in picture quality They say that every new home cinema is a theatre of dreams but it can be a nightmare to build. In bespoke cinema design nothing is ideal if you’re fine-tuning the system for the most immersive blend of audio, video and design in rooms ranging in size, shape and material construction. You’ll need an ultra-wide toolbox to handle all the permutations and still produce genuine home theatre atmospherics. At Habitech we’ve been developing our home cinema product range and support services to answer the obvious challenges posed by, say, a glass frontage to a media room where the side channels should go, and the unforeseen ones such as space limitations behind walls and ceilings. In time-honoured fashion we’ll supply the product versatility you’ll need, backed-up by the ability to resolve on-site emergencies with rapid support and knowhow. It’s all part of a service that can begin with an invitation to you and your clients to experience our Atmos Cinema at Basingstoke, and then to scale that experience for the client’s room with our new design software, which outputs the ideal equipment spec (including acoustic treatments) according to budget and room size, everything costed and rendered for presentation to your client. Habitech’s end-to-end support for each project from the design stage to the premiere performance will ensure you draw a deep breath of satisfaction with every perfect outcome. Perfect Audio Image Voted CE Pro brand leader in audio by US integrators two years in a row, Sonance offers a precision blend of in-wall and in-ceiling speaker design through the Visual Performance line. If you’re building an Atmos or DTS-X system involving height and side channels, VP’s cinema range delivers matched high tech drivers and voicing for in ceiling and LCR models to deliver pin-point imaging across four performance levels. Angled mids and tweeters in the surround positions will allow you to bounce the sound off glass boundaries in those tricky media room installs, and for height channels you have the option of fitting VP in-ceilings, sharing similar driver engineering for uniformly high sound quality. The forward-placed high excursion woofers in all VP models minimise early reflections so the blend with a choice of two in-wall subs, the VP10SUB-NC 10” and VP12SUB-NC 12” - complete with dedicated enclosures and dedicated Sonance DSP amps - will be precise. Where mounting depth is shallow use the VP Thinline in-ceiling/wall models, which max out at 64mm (rectangular) and 80mm (round). For every environment and every system configuration, complement VP cinema with a supporting range of VP in-wall, inceiling, single stereo (with surround toggle), dedicated Sonance VP line offers superb sound and versatility with luxury in-wall/ceiling design 16 | September 2016 Habitech (3pp).indd 16 26/09/2016 15:18