Essential Install | Show Review
CEDIA Snippets
EI’s editor Niamh Marriott offers news, notes, and expert comments
from the spectacular CEDIA 2017, held this year at the convention
centre in San Diego and featuring a monumental mass of AV
automation and smart technologies.
Expert talks and
training were
hugely popular this
year at CEDIA
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From lights to loudspeakers, screens to smart locks,
catching up with old friends of EI and meeting shrewd
new start-ups, this year’s show was a jam packed
yet thoroughly rewarding. Though by no means a
comprehensive list, the following companies and
products stood out to me.
A memorable meeting was with Pulse Cinemas, as
the team provided a booth tour of Klipsch, the latest
speaker brand to join its line-up, with over 50 new
premium custom speaker solutions on show at CEDIA.
Speaking about the partnership, Kapes Patel, Pulse’s
technical sales director says, “We are convinced that
offering Klipsch high-performance speaker solutions
to integrators in the UK will give them protected
distribution, achievable margins, and unrivalled sound.”
One evening, I was also invited by Pulse to visit a show
house set up to display James Loudspeaker products,
high end exquisitely designed speakers, for which I was
particularly impressed by the outdoor solutions that
included a speaker cum plant pot.
Meridian was celebrating its 40 th birthday as a
company and invited me to their purpose-built immersive
sound room for drinks, cake and a catch up on what’s
new. Showcasing two new products, the 271 Digital
Theatre Controller and 251 Powered Zone Controller,
Meridian again proved its commitment to premium
quality performance. The 271 allows technology
integrators to provide immersive, Hi-Res Audio for
home theatre, with the ability to integrate any analogue
or digital AV processor or receiver with Meridian DSP
loudspeakers. Extending the 200 Series further, Meridian
also unveiled the new 251 Powered Zone Controller.
The design features two powerful cool-running channels