And this is one of those times…   KEF Audio T Series Speaker System

The KEF T Series is one of the world’s thinnest high performance home theater and flat panel audio systems.

Designed as the perfect compliment to any wall mounted flat screen TV.  At less than 1.5 inches thick these ultra-slim speakers bring true high-fidelity sound typically found in a conventional cabinet speaker.  What a  beautiful design! space saving speakers that look amazing and deliver superior quality sound, Is this possible?  We had to test them out for ourselves.…   assembled and installed in our testing room and driven by a 300 watt amplifier the also slender 10″ subwoofer brings great responsive bass to the show, while the wall mounted surround speakers delivered very crisp midtone and vocals even during low talking monologue of our movie choices.  For this we give the T Series Speakers an overall “WOW”, and suggest if you are looking for an amazing surround speaker system consider KEF and give us a call for a demonstration.

Imagine This
Pull up to your well lit home at the end of a long day…things are looking better already! As you walk into your home, lights turn on because of your motion. Your home responds to you! And to top it off, as you move from one part of the house to another, lights turn off. It even works for children. If you are a parent, this can really save your voice if you haven’t already recorded, “Go turn your bedroom lights off” for your child to hear every time they leave their room.

Lighting Control Adds Safety and is a Huge Convenience
The help that automatic lighting gives us saves us from the nasty habit of tripping and falling over things that we can’t see…or dropping our armloads of stuff. There is a great convenience factor for busy people who commonly enter their homes with children, briefcases and packages in overflowing armfuls. Simply reaching for the lights can be impossible.

Energy Efficiency
Saving money on energy bills is a huge benefit of lighting control. The payback can be in years so you will want to know that you will be in your home for some time…or use it as a bonus selling feature for prospective homebuyers. I’ve sure you can already figure out that the forgotten light by a child or even yourself adds up over the month.

Vampire Power
Just in time for Halloween, a drain on energy savings that many people don’t often consider is something called VAMPIRE POWER…you know the power that is being drawn by say, the toaster when it is plugged in when nobody is using it. That type of power waste can also be significantly reduced with lighting control by actually turning those outlets off a certain points.

The Coolest Part of Lighting Control!
It’s been called sexy, cool, state of the art and blah blah blah, but it really is so fun. Just think, controlling the lighting in your house from your phone — really! You’re about to watch a movie-turn down the lights. You hear a noise in the basement — turn on the lights. You are ready to leave the house — turn everything off. Button presses on your phone do all this. I’m adding a pic of the interface. On phone lighting control works for iPhones and Android.

Lighting Control for Holiday Lights
This may sound obvious, but wouldn’t it be much easier to manage holiday lights with your lighting control app on your phone? I know how much you love plugging and unplugging the lights every day, but if you should ever want an easier way…it does exits

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Here’s more info on overall energy savings possibilities from one of our suppliers:
http://www.lutron.com/TechnicalDocumentLibrary/367‑2054.pdf

So if you’re considering adding a deck, a pool or other outdoor features and you want it to be just perfect for your family and for entertaining, the first thing you simply must have is music. Music puts the icing on the cake for outdoor entertaining whether it is an intimate dinner for two or a party of hundreds.

Check with your outdoor landscaper or call Trend directly to learn about the possibilies in outdoor entertainment. The consultation is free. (717) 478‑8132

The key components in theater design are:
1. Shape and size of the room — this includes ceiling height
2. The materials on the walls, ceilings and floors
3. Who is viewing and what are they viewing — watching movies, playing games, watching TV…all of the above. The answers to these questions will determin if this design will be for a man cave, family media room or in-home movie theater.
4. Your Budget.will be a HUGE factor so decide that up front if you can.
5. Is this going to be a new home theater room or adapting an existing room into a home theater room.
6. What’s behind the walls will determine in-wall or on-wall and hidden in a closet components or the need for furniture.
7…and speaking of furniture: Will you be upgrading to home theater furniture?

That will get you started. Professionally designed home theaters (sans the room) usually have a starting price of about $5,000 and can go up to just about any number depending on the customer.

Whole House Music KeypadSimple Keypad Lets Every Room Choose from Four Types of Music When you build

I know that I have a bias; however that doesn’t change the facts that if you listen to music, watch TV, have lights or entertain outside, that your life can be significantly enhanced by even the simplest of home technologies. For example, when people see the little keypads on the wall in our home, I know it just doesn’t compute…it can’t. It looks way to simple for what it does. That little keypad on the wall plays four different sources of music. The first one is constant streaming music from Pandora on my computer, the second is an iPod, the third is connected to the TV and with that, the gaming system…anyone want to listen to the football game EVERYWHERE in the house? The fourth is the radio. Anywhere in the house, in any room, somebody can press a button to turn any type of music on that they desire. While in the next room a family member can be turned into an entirely different type of music on a different source.

I had a visitor in our home yesterday who was very interested to learn about the multi-room audio system, intercoms and distributed video we have installed in our home. He noticed no wires showing anywhere, just music everywhere and communication with anyone in the house with the touch of a button. When I told him about the benefits to my husband and I and to our whole family, it was really surprising to hear from my own mouth how much these systems mean to all of us. I guess it is like a cell phone…once you have it, you could never do without it and the benefits are immeasurable. It would be hard to enjoy a home without built in home technologies nearly as much as I enjoy ours with it.

Another question our visitor asked was what the benefits might be to somebody with a smaller home. Even with a small home, iPods can’t be heard in every room without speakers in those rooms, unless you are going set a stereo in the middle of the room and crank it up! Everyone can enjoy walking into their home at the end of the day, setting their iPod in a dock and turning on music that plays in their entire home while they cook a lovely dinner (or order in).

So basically, home technologies, are great for everyone who owns or is building a home. Learning what exists is probably the hardest part of the whole thing. Once you know about them and realize that they aren’t going to break the bank you’re on the path to a seriously great experience. If you want a free consult or just somebody to help you figure out what might work for you, give Craig a call at Trend Home Systems. He’ll get you the info you need to make a good decision. (717) 478‑8132.