A Strategic Approach For The Custom Electronics Professional
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April 20, 2010 From News
Frank Sterns, President of Niles Audio Corporation, a division of Linear, LLC which is owned by Nortek, Inc., announced today that he will be leaving the company.
April 12, 2010 From News
Linear LLC announced last week it has established a new group, combining audio, video, and control operations and the Niles Audio, Xantech and ELAN Home Systems divisions. Mark Terry has been named the group's president.
January 2010 From CustomRetailer
Ari Supran
CEO, Dana Innovations/Sonance, iPort
At Sonance, Ari has been intricately involved in the rebranding, repositioning and general turnaround of the Sonance brand back to a
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2009 Distributor Directory
April 2009 From CustomRetailer
In these challenging economic times, when a choice must be made about who a custom integrator will do business with, service is the differentiator—just as it is at the client level.
April 2009 From CustomRetailer
In these challenging economic times, when a choice must be made about who a custom integrator will do business with, service is the differentiator—just as it is at the client level.
Manufacturers Listings
January 16, 2009 From 2009 Best of the Best
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January 16, 2009 From 2009 Best of the Best
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Getting ‘Furmanized’
September 2008 From CustomRetailer
Milwaukee-based Ultra Fidelis has been providing state-of-the-art A/V products and custom installations since its inception in 1997. If you had to use one word to sum up the company’s approach to audio and video, it would be “selective.” This includes the product lines they sell and the showroom where they demonstrate them. So when the company needed to move to a new location, the objective was to find a standalone building where they could recreate the compelling music and movie experiences most of us enjoy frequently at home, but rarely, if ever, in a commercial establishment. And when it came to power management for
September 2008 From CustomRetailer
Milwaukee-based Ultra Fidelis has been providing state-of-the-art A/V products and custom installations since its inception in 1997. If you had to use one word to sum up the company’s approach to audio and video, it would be “selective.” This includes the product lines they sell and the showroom where they demonstrate them. So when the company needed to move to a new location, the objective was to find a standalone building where they could recreate the compelling music and movie experiences most of us enjoy frequently at home, but rarely, if ever, in a commercial establishment. And when it came to power management for
Central Vacuum Systems
August 2008 From CustomRetailer
BROAN-NUTONE LLC Tom Heidel, Marketing Manager, Central Vacuum Systems PRESENTATION ADVICE: Central vacuum dealers need to realize that everyone else has finally caught up with what they already know—that central vacuum systems provide significant improvement in a home’s air quality. In the past year, the two largest and most prominent ‘green’ building programs have recognized central vacuums as being important to indoor air quality and ‘green’ building. The NAHB’s Green Building guidelines and the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED program both allow credits for the installation of a central vacuum system in a ‘green’ home. There are not many ‘green’ building items that provide
August 2008 From CustomRetailer
BROAN-NUTONE LLC Tom Heidel, Marketing Manager, Central Vacuum Systems PRESENTATION ADVICE: Central vacuum dealers need to realize that everyone else has finally caught up with what they already know—that central vacuum systems provide significant improvement in a home’s air quality. In the past year, the two largest and most prominent ‘green’ building programs have recognized central vacuums as being important to indoor air quality and ‘green’ building. The NAHB’s Green Building guidelines and the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED program both allow credits for the installation of a central vacuum system in a ‘green’ home. There are not many ‘green’ building items that provide
May 2008 From News
Linear Acoustic announced last week that it plans to merge with Telos Systems Group, a technology partnership dedicated to advanced audio. The merger comes as the analog signal shutoff date rapidly approaches. “This merger is a great marriage of the integrity of the Linear Acoustic line with the cutting-edge innovation of Omnia,” Telos managind director Denny Sanders said as part of the announcement. “We always wanted to take a serious stab at TV audio processing, but not in a half-hearted way, so it was only natural for us to join forces with Tim Carroll and Linear Acoustic to pool our knowledge to create
Distribution Special: Distributor Directory
April 2008 From CustomRetailer
CustomRetailer presents a directory of companies ready to provide you with everything you need to run your business... ADI Tom Polson, President About the Company: As a leading global wholesale distributor of security and low-voltage products, ADI offers the support, service and confidence you need to stay up to date with the evolving custom electronics market. ADI’s superior product offerings, convenient locations, friendly and knowledgeable staff and extensive training opportunities can be relied on to help you win business throughout the marketplace. For the past 20 years, ADI has been distributing the latest technologies and value-added services to residential and commercial A/V
April 2008 From CustomRetailer
CustomRetailer presents a directory of companies ready to provide you with everything you need to run your business... ADI Tom Polson, President About the Company: As a leading global wholesale distributor of security and low-voltage products, ADI offers the support, service and confidence you need to stay up to date with the evolving custom electronics market. ADI’s superior product offerings, convenient locations, friendly and knowledgeable staff and extensive training opportunities can be relied on to help you win business throughout the marketplace. For the past 20 years, ADI has been distributing the latest technologies and value-added services to residential and commercial A/V
Building Relationships
March 2008 From CustomRetailer
For the custom electronics and home automation suppliers at this year’s International Builders’ Show (IBS), held in mid-February, the soft housing market and the lag in recovery that is expected to occur well after the federal government’s economic stimulus package takes effect were all the more reason for them to have a presence on Orlando’s sprawling Orange County Convention Center floor. “This is our first IBS, and the reason we came,” explained Paradigm’s marketing manager, Mark Aling, “is to help set up home builder-installer contacts. Lots of home builders don’t know who to trust on the CI side. When you give that key over
March 2008 From CustomRetailer
For the custom electronics and home automation suppliers at this year’s International Builders’ Show (IBS), held in mid-February, the soft housing market and the lag in recovery that is expected to occur well after the federal government’s economic stimulus package takes effect were all the more reason for them to have a presence on Orlando’s sprawling Orange County Convention Center floor. “This is our first IBS, and the reason we came,” explained Paradigm’s marketing manager, Mark Aling, “is to help set up home builder-installer contacts. Lots of home builders don’t know who to trust on the CI side. When you give that key over
October 2007 From News
Nortek Inc.’s Home Technology Group has agreed to purchase the Massachusetts-based electronic security firm International Electronics, Inc. (IEI), the companies announced last week. The group, which owns several companies including Linear LLC, did not reveal a purchase price. IEI, which owns the browse-managed security management system eMerge, has been in the controlled access field for more than 40 years. In its announcement, Nortek said that the two companies’ businesses “have very much in common with their line offerings, but very little actual product overlap.” Earlier this year, Nortek had purchased LiteTouch and Gefen, adding it to the Home Technology Group. Other members
September 2007 From News
The Wireless home control provider Linear LLC this week announced the introduction of a new gate/door controller, called the AP-5. The new device allows easy programming to open or close gates, doors, and other forms of entrance. The AP-5 is geared towards areas in which more than one door is being used at once. It can be configured either for access use, obstacle use, or a combination of both. It is being marketed to gated communities, as well as apartment complexes and office buildings. “With the release of the AP-5, we have expanded the capabilities of our wireless controller, making it much
September 2007 From News
The Linear Home Technology Group, which includes SpeakerCraft, Niles Audio, ELAN, ATON and Xantech, unveiled DIGI-5, a low-cost audio distribution technology that will serve as a common platform for easier integration of products released by Linear’s brands. The company also plans to make the platform available to other companies that meet certain licensing requirements. Announced Wednesday at Fall CEDIA Expo 2007 in Denver, the protocol is designed to transmit digital music over CAT-5 wiring. It is the first collaborative development project to emerge from the various companies under the Linear umbrella. The announcement was made ahead of a series of SpeakerCraft product
August 2007 From CustomRetailer
Manufacturers of central vacuum systems have been engaging the custom electronics installation market for several years now, to varying degrees of success. Perhaps now, their time has come, as numerous trends are working in their favor. For one, their products, which they claim can remove indoor pollutants, play into the touchy-feely “green living” trend. Secondly, builders increasingly are looking to differentiate their homes in the midst of a softening housing market. And finally, the days of big profits on flat panels are gone for the custom installation market, and the hunt is on for products that can deliver high margin. Still, there are challenges
Spotlight: Homeowners Could Use a Little Structure
June 2007 From CustomRetailer
Like many Americans, I live in wire hell, although perhaps in a deeper circle of wire hell than most. My old Craftsman home has DirecTV satellite feeding three entertainment systems, a home office with a fax machine, two computers hooked into high-speed internet, business and VoIP phone lines and a dedicated home theater in my converted garage. Each application requires a tangle of wires that run up my walls and across my floors, where they lay together in dusty clumps. Still, even my issues are amateur compared to what custom integrators and builders need to address: security, lighting, HVAC, whole-house audio, intercoms. I shudder
June 2007 From CustomRetailer
Like many Americans, I live in wire hell, although perhaps in a deeper circle of wire hell than most. My old Craftsman home has DirecTV satellite feeding three entertainment systems, a home office with a fax machine, two computers hooked into high-speed internet, business and VoIP phone lines and a dedicated home theater in my converted garage. Each application requires a tangle of wires that run up my walls and across my floors, where they lay together in dusty clumps. Still, even my issues are amateur compared to what custom integrators and builders need to address: security, lighting, HVAC, whole-house audio, intercoms. I shudder
