Home Audio Solutions For Mendham NJ

Surround Sound For Your Home Theater

You can't have a home theater without great sound. Future Home Technologies can help you choose the right home audio equipment and do the wiring so you are "in" the movie.

The first step to having a great home audio system is getting surround sound in your main TV area. For surround sound you need a minimum of five speakers and a subwoofer wired to a surround sound receiver. This is termed 5.1 surround sound. If you have room for two more speakers on the sides, the set-up is termed 7.1 surround sound. The speakers can be regular box or tower speakers, but in-wall speakers have become extremely popular. These speakers are flush in the wall and can be painted over so they are hardly noticeable.

Home audio speakers vary widely in price. You can spend a couple of hundred dollars for speakers that come in a complete set (home theater in a box) to thousands of dollars for high end speakers. The advice we give customers is this-- there is an entry point where you get into good speakers. After that the price is based on the subtlety and quality of the sound. It may be the difference between a $60 or $80 bottle of wine. At a certain point, many people can’t tell the difference. It is more important to get all home audio speakers of the same brand. All speaker manufacturers build their speakers to work together.

We primarily use Speakercraft speakers. Speakercraft is the largest and oldest manufacturer of in-wall speakers. They are also the largest dealer among custom home audio installers. They do a great job and really support their products. We can get almost any speaker for your home theater needs, but Speakercraft is a great starting point.

For receivers, Denon is great and so is Yamaha. Again, we’ll support most brands. We try to get you the best in class and highest rated equipment.

Whole House Audio Solutions

Using an A/V receiver or dedicated stereo receiver, we can wire for speakers throughout your home so you have music wherever you go.

The music can come from an iPod plugged into your receiver with a dock, to a Sirius satellite radio receiver, a dedicated music server or even a CD player. We can even connect your computer directly to your receiver so you can access all the music on your PC or to Internet music sources such as Rhapsody. Sonos is one tool that allows us to do this. At Future Home Technologies of Mendham, NJ we can help you make the right home audio choices to match your lifestyle.

To access music in each room, we can do anything from simple volume controls to wired or wireless multi-zone controllers that allow different music to be played in each room simultaneously. Each room can also have a keypad that shows you all your music on one easy to use screen.

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